diff --git a/tools/pythonpkg/tests/fast/api/test_read_csv.py b/tools/pythonpkg/tests/fast/api/test_read_csv.py
index b49170b6abc..949ec73219b 100644
--- a/tools/pythonpkg/tests/fast/api/test_read_csv.py
+++ b/tools/pythonpkg/tests/fast/api/test_read_csv.py
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ def test_filelike_none(self, duckdb_cursor):
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Can not read from a non file-like object"):
             res = duckdb_cursor.read_csv(obj, header=True).fetchall()
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="depends on garbage collector behaviour, and sporadically breaks in CI")
     def test_internal_object_filesystem_cleanup(self, duckdb_cursor):
         _ = pytest.importorskip("fsspec")