diff --git a/nemo/collections/multimodal/modules/stable_diffusion/encoders/modules.py b/nemo/collections/multimodal/modules/stable_diffusion/encoders/modules.py
index ab33532c3c1fa..0443d75a61e83 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/multimodal/modules/stable_diffusion/encoders/modules.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/multimodal/modules/stable_diffusion/encoders/modules.py
@@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ def load_model(self, cfg, state_dict):
             model_cfg=cfg,
             model_parallel_config=ModelParallelConfig(),
             padded_vocab_size=padded_vocab_size,
+            vision_transformer_config=None,  # assumed mcore to be false
+            text_transformer_config=None,
             pre_process=cfg.text.pre_process,
             post_process=cfg.text.post_process,
         )