diff --git a/hack/verify-godeps.sh b/hack/verify-godeps.sh
index cd212f0f05..c816ec8575 100755
--- a/hack/verify-godeps.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-godeps.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,24 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
+#### HACK ####
+# Sometimes godep just can't handle things. This lets use manually put
+# some deps in place first, so godep won't fall over.
+preload-dep() {
+  org="$1"
+  project="$2"
+  sha="$3"
+
+  org_dir="${GOPATH}/src/${org}"
+  mkdir -p "${org_dir}"
+  pushd "${org_dir}" > /dev/null
+    git clone "https://${org}/${project}.git" > /dev/null 2>&1
+    pushd "${org_dir}/${project}" > /dev/null
+      git checkout "${sha}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+    popd > /dev/null
+  popd > /dev/null
+}
+
 KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
 source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/init.sh"
 
@@ -43,6 +61,11 @@ GODEP="${_tmpdir}/bin/godep"
 
 # fill out that nice clean place with the kube godeps
 echo "Starting to download all kubernetes godeps. This takes a while"
+
+# github.com/prometheus/client_golang removed the model and extraction directory.
+# thus go get fails and thus godep fails. So load it by hand.
+preload-dep "github.com/prometheus" "client_golang" "692492e54b553a81013254cc1fba4b6dd76fad30"
+
 "${GODEP}" restore
 echo "Download finished"