diff --git a/src/diffusers/loaders/single_file.py b/src/diffusers/loaders/single_file.py
index 1e4678cfbe..21670385af 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/loaders/single_file.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/loaders/single_file.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from huggingface_hub.utils import validate_hf_hub_args
 from transformers import AutoFeatureExtractor
 
 from ..models.modeling_utils import load_state_dict
-from ..pipelines.pipeline_utils import _get_pipeline_class
 from ..pipelines.stable_diffusion.safety_checker import StableDiffusionSafetyChecker
 from ..utils import (
     is_accelerate_available,
@@ -286,6 +285,8 @@ class FromSingleFileMixin:
             )
             return component["controlnet"]
 
+        from ..pipelines.pipeline_utils import _get_pipeline_class
+
         pipeline_class = _get_pipeline_class(
             cls,
             config=None,