diff --git a/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission.go b/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission.go
index 832351c3974..00c2ac71b16 100644
--- a/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission.go
+++ b/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 
+	"github.com/golang/glog"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/admission"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	apierrors "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/errors"
@@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ func (p *plugin) Admit(attributes admission.Attributes) (err error) {
 	}
 	affinity, err := api.GetAffinityFromPodAnnotations(pod.Annotations)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		glog.V(5).Infof("Invalid Affinity detected, but we will leave handling of this to validation phase")
+		return nil
 	}
 	if affinity.PodAntiAffinity != nil {
 		var podAntiAffinityTerms []api.PodAffinityTerm
diff --git a/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission_test.go b/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission_test.go
index bded0340b61..3073d6d81c6 100644
--- a/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission_test.go
+++ b/plugin/pkg/admission/antiaffinity/admission_test.go
@@ -200,6 +200,16 @@ func TestInterPodAffinityAdmission(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			errorExpected: true,
 		},
+		{
+			affinity: map[string]string{
+				api.AffinityAnnotationKey: `
+					{"podAntiAffinity": {
+						"thisIsAInvalidAffinity": [{}
+					}}`,
+			},
+			// however, we should not got error here
+			errorExpected: false,
+		},
 	}
 	for _, test := range tests {
 		pod.ObjectMeta.Annotations = test.affinity