diff --git a/src/common/kube-helpers.ts b/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
index 1387d1aa1b..0826edf843 100644
--- a/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
+++ b/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
@@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ export function getNodeWarningConditions(node: V1Node) {
  * Validates Context, User and Cluster sructs in given kubeconfig. Additionally this will validate
  * the command passed to the exec substructure.
  */
-export function validateKubeConfig (config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, validationOpts?: KubeConfigValidationOpts) {
+export function validateKubeConfig (config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, validationOpts: KubeConfigValidationOpts = {}) {
   // we only receive a single context, cluster & user object here so lets validate them as this
   // will be called when we add a new cluster to Lens
 
-  const { validateUser = true, validateCluster = true, validateExec = true } = validationOpts || {};
+  const { validateUser = true, validateCluster = true, validateExec = true } = validationOpts;
 
   const contextObject = config.getContextObject(contextName);