diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
index f07dda1247..3a70d74926 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ class Api::V1::StatusesController < Api::BaseController
     @status = Status.where(account: current_account).find(params[:id])
     authorize @status, :destroy?
 
+    # JSON is generated before `discard_with_reblogs` in order to have the proper URL
+    # for media attachments, as it would otherwise redirect to the media proxy
     json = render_to_body json: @status, serializer: REST::StatusSerializer, source_requested: true
 
     @status.discard_with_reblogs
diff --git a/spec/requests/api/v1/statuses_spec.rb b/spec/requests/api/v1/statuses_spec.rb
index be227e801e..f9845ada7e 100644
--- a/spec/requests/api/v1/statuses_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/api/v1/statuses_spec.rb
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ RSpec.describe '/api/v1/statuses' do
 
       let(:scopes) { 'write:statuses' }
       let(:status) { Fabricate(:status, account: user.account) }
+      let!(:media) { Fabricate(:media_attachment, status: status) }
 
       it_behaves_like 'forbidden for wrong scope', 'read read:statuses'
 
@@ -468,6 +469,15 @@ RSpec.describe '/api/v1/statuses' do
         expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
         expect(response.content_type)
           .to start_with('application/json')
+        expect(response.parsed_body).to include(
+          id: status.id.to_s,
+          media_attachments: contain_exactly(
+            a_hash_including(
+              id: media.id.to_s,
+              url: %r{/system/media_attachments/files/}
+            )
+          )
+        )
         expect(Status.find_by(id: status.id)).to be_nil
         expect(RemovalWorker).to have_enqueued_sidekiq_job(status.id, { 'redraft' => true })
       end