diff --git a/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.tsx b/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.tsx
index 9504cd653b..dd5d6c8720 100644
--- a/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.tsx
+++ b/src/admin/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.tsx
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ const RichText: React.FC<Props> = (props) => {
       const parsedJSON = JSON.parse(valueToRender);
       valueToRender = parsedJSON;
     } catch (err) {
-      // do nothing
+      valueToRender = null;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/test/fields/collections/RichText/index.ts b/test/fields/collections/RichText/index.ts
index c178426387..a39b92f89d 100644
--- a/test/fields/collections/RichText/index.ts
+++ b/test/fields/collections/RichText/index.ts
@@ -188,6 +188,30 @@ const RichTextFields: CollectionConfig = {
         },
       },
     },
+    {
+      name: 'blocks',
+      type: 'blocks',
+      blocks: [
+        {
+          slug: 'textBlock',
+          fields: [
+            {
+              name: 'text',
+              type: 'text',
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+        {
+          slug: 'richTextBlock',
+          fields: [
+            {
+              name: 'text',
+              type: 'richText',
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    },
   ],
 };
 
@@ -440,12 +464,32 @@ export const richTextBulletsDoc = {
   ],
 };
 
+export const richTextBlocks = [
+  {
+    blockType: 'textBlock',
+    text: 'Regular text',
+  },
+  {
+    blockType: 'richTextBlock',
+    text: [
+      {
+        children: [
+          {
+            text: 'Rich text',
+          },
+        ],
+        type: 'h1',
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
 export const richTextDoc = {
   title: 'Rich Text',
   selectHasMany: ['one', 'five'],
   richText: generateRichText(),
   richTextReadOnly: generateRichText(),
   richTextCustomFields: generateRichText(),
+  blocks: richTextBlocks,
 };
 
 export default RichTextFields;
diff --git a/test/fields/e2e.spec.ts b/test/fields/e2e.spec.ts
index 7ff02ff47d..f3cc7f98ae 100644
--- a/test/fields/e2e.spec.ts
+++ b/test/fields/e2e.spec.ts
@@ -736,6 +736,25 @@ describe('fields', () => {
         const textField = await editLinkModal.locator('#field-text');
         await expect(textField).toHaveValue('Hello, I\'m a rich text field.');
       });
+      test('should not take value from previous block', async () => {
+        await navigateToRichTextFields();
+
+        // check first block value
+        const textField = await page.locator('#field-blocks__0__text');
+        await expect(textField).toHaveValue('Regular text');
+
+        // remove the first block
+        const editBlock = await page.locator('#blocks-row-0 .popup-button');
+        await editBlock.click();
+        const removeButton = await page.locator('#blocks-row-0').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove' });
+        await expect(removeButton).toBeVisible();
+        await removeButton.click();
+
+        // check new first block value
+        const richTextField = await page.locator('#field-blocks__0__text');
+        const richTextValue = await richTextField.innerText();
+        await expect(richTextValue).toContain('Rich text');
+      });
     });
   });