diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 43c3d82..3451fc7 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ class CLIPLoaderGGUF:
         clip.patcher = GGUFModelPatcher.clone(clip.patcher)
 
         # for some reason this is just missing in some SAI checkpoints
-        if hasattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_l"):
+        if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_l", None) is not None:
             if clip.cond_stage_model.clip_l.transformer.text_projection.weight.tensor_shape == None:
                 clip.cond_stage_model.clip_l.transformer.text_projection = comfy.ops.manual_cast.Linear(768, 768)
-        if hasattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_g"):
+        if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_g", None) is not None:
             if clip.cond_stage_model.clip_g.transformer.text_projection.weight.tensor_shape == None:
                 clip.cond_stage_model.clip_g.transformer.text_projection = comfy.ops.manual_cast.Linear(1280, 1280)