diff --git a/packages/tests/src/api/server/stats.ts b/packages/tests/src/api/server/stats.ts
index 3afe2156f..df65990e7 100644
--- a/packages/tests/src/api/server/stats.ts
+++ b/packages/tests/src/api/server/stats.ts
@@ -34,11 +34,14 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
     const { account } = await servers[0].users.create({ username: user.username, password: user.password })
     userAccountId = account.id
 
-    const { uuid } = await servers[0].videos.upload({ attributes: { fixture: 'video_short.webm' } })
+    {
+      const { uuid } = await servers[0].videos.quickUpload({ name: 'video', fixture: 'video_short.webm' })
+      await servers[0].views.simulateView({ id: uuid })
 
-    await servers[0].comments.createThread({ videoId: uuid, text: 'comment' })
-
-    await servers[0].views.simulateView({ id: uuid })
+      await servers[0].comments.createThread({ videoId: uuid, text: 'comment' })
+      const toDelete = await servers[0].comments.createThread({ videoId: uuid, text: 'deleted' })
+      await servers[0].comments.delete({ videoId: uuid, commentId: toDelete.id })
+    }
 
     // Wait the video views repeatable job
     await wait(8000)
diff --git a/server/core/models/video/video-comment.ts b/server/core/models/video/video-comment.ts
index b73dfedea..d41d7974b 100644
--- a/server/core/models/video/video-comment.ts
+++ b/server/core/models/video/video-comment.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+import { pick } from '@peertube/peertube-core-utils'
+import { ActivityTagObject, ActivityTombstoneObject, VideoComment, VideoCommentAdmin, VideoCommentObject } from '@peertube/peertube-models'
+import { extractMentions } from '@server/helpers/mentions.js'
+import { getServerActor } from '@server/models/application/application.js'
+import { MAccount, MAccountId, MUserAccountId } from '@server/types/models/index.js'
 import { Op, Order, QueryTypes, Sequelize, Transaction } from 'sequelize'
 import {
   AllowNull,
@@ -11,17 +16,12 @@ import {
   Table,
   UpdatedAt
 } from 'sequelize-typescript'
-import { pick } from '@peertube/peertube-core-utils'
-import { ActivityTagObject, ActivityTombstoneObject, VideoComment, VideoCommentAdmin, VideoCommentObject } from '@peertube/peertube-models'
-import { extractMentions } from '@server/helpers/mentions.js'
-import { getServerActor } from '@server/models/application/application.js'
-import { MAccount, MAccountId, MUserAccountId } from '@server/types/models/index.js'
 import { isActivityPubUrlValid } from '../../helpers/custom-validators/activitypub/misc.js'
 import { CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS, USER_EXPORT_MAX_ITEMS } from '../../initializers/constants.js'
 import {
   MComment,
-  MCommentAdminFormattable,
   MCommentAP,
+  MCommentAdminFormattable,
   MCommentExport,
   MCommentFormattable,
   MCommentId,
@@ -480,7 +480,12 @@ export class VideoCommentModel extends SequelizeModel<VideoCommentModel> {
   }
 
   static async getStats () {
+    const where = {
+      deletedAt: null
+    }
+
     const totalLocalVideoComments = await VideoCommentModel.count({
+      where,
       include: [
         {
           model: AccountModel.unscoped(),
@@ -497,7 +502,7 @@ export class VideoCommentModel extends SequelizeModel<VideoCommentModel> {
         }
       ]
     })
-    const totalVideoComments = await VideoCommentModel.count()
+    const totalVideoComments = await VideoCommentModel.count({ where })
 
     return {
       totalLocalVideoComments,