diff --git a/TTS/tts/layers/xtts/perceiver_encoder.py b/TTS/tts/layers/xtts/perceiver_encoder.py
index 7b7ee79b50..d1aa16c456 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/layers/xtts/perceiver_encoder.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/layers/xtts/perceiver_encoder.py
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ def Sequential(*mods):
     return nn.Sequential(*filter(exists, mods))
 
 
-def exists(x):
-    return x is not None
-
-
 def default(val, d):
     if exists(val):
         return val