diff --git a/litellm/exceptions.py b/litellm/exceptions.py
index 58164fa0f40..f9215267bf3 100644
--- a/litellm/exceptions.py
+++ b/litellm/exceptions.py
@@ -353,10 +353,6 @@ class Timeout(openai.APITimeoutError):
         self.max_retries = max_retries
         self.num_retries = num_retries
         self.headers = headers
-        # The upstream response, when the timeout came from a provider reply
-        # rather than a client-side deadline. Retry and cooldown logic reads
-        # `retry-after` off it, and the proxy prefixes its headers before
-        # returning them, matching every other mapped provider exception.
         if response is not None:
             self.response = response