diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/transform/ExpressionTransform.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/transform/ExpressionTransform.java
index 98d2e54cb8c24..815e206edbcdd 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/transform/ExpressionTransform.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/transform/ExpressionTransform.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import org.apache.druid.math.expr.ExprMacroTable;
 import org.apache.druid.math.expr.InputBindings;
 import org.apache.druid.math.expr.Parser;
-import org.apache.druid.segment.virtual.ExpressionSelectors;
 
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -111,9 +110,7 @@ public Object eval(final Row row)
     public List<String> evalDimension(Row row)
     {
       try {
-        return Rows.objectToStrings(
-            ExpressionSelectors.coerceEvalToObjectOrList(expr.eval(InputBindings.forRow(row)))
-        );
+        return Rows.objectToStrings(expr.eval(InputBindings.forRow(row)));
       }
       catch (Throwable t) {
         throw new ISE(t, "Could not transform dimension value for %s reason: %s", name, t.getMessage());