Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton denies Canadian model’s accusation that he raped her in 1983

Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton has come out to defend himself after a former Canadian model Sera Johnston accused him of raping her when she was 14 while his friend watched.

According to Sera Johnston, Hutton, who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar award for the movie ‘Ordinary People’ in 1981, sexually assaulted her in 1983, an allegation that he has strongly denied.

“It was like we were entertaining them – cute,” Johnston told BuzzFeed News.

“We were funny, you know what I mean.”

She claimed Hutton sat down next to her

“He was getting very close to me, you know, really kind of sidling up to me, and petting my legs and stuff.
“I was just, like: I think this is going to be bad. I was really wrong about this,” she told BuzzFeed.

Johnston who said the #meToo movement motivated her to come out, said she told Hutton “I don’t think this is a good idea” and “I don’t think my mother would be too happy about this.

‘It’ll be OK, it’ll be OK. It won’t last long and you’ll be fine.'” Johnston allegedly said to her.

According to Johnston, Hutton who was about 24 at the time, started kissing her neck, and took off her clothes despite her objection. He then told her that she would like it and that his friend would watch. 

“It hurt like hell,” she told BuzzFeed.

“I mean, it was very painful. God. Yeah, it was extremely painful. “Horrible, horrible, absolutely horrible.”

Hutton denied the allegations, saying in a statement to Deadline that he has been the “target of multiple extortion attempts” by Johnston.

“She threatened that if I did not meet her demands, she would go to the press with a false allegation that I sexually assaulted her 37 years ago in Canada.”

“BuzzFeed knew the truth because they were provided with documented evidence.”

“I will not stop fighting to expose this story for what it is – a failed extortion attempt based on something that never happened.”