diff --git a/litellm/main.py b/litellm/main.py
index 0fad87d6d7..764ee5bb8a 100644
--- a/litellm/main.py
+++ b/litellm/main.py
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ async def acompletion(
 async def _async_streaming(response, model, custom_llm_provider, args):
     try:
         print_verbose(f"received response in _async_streaming: {response}")
+        if asyncio.iscoroutine(response):
+            response = await response
         async for line in response:
             print_verbose(f"line in async streaming: {line}")
             yield line