diff --git a/crates/vm/src/builtins/asyncgenerator.rs b/crates/vm/src/builtins/asyncgenerator.rs
@@ -87,9 +87,14 @@ impl PyAsyncGen {
        if let Some(finalizer) = finalizer
            && !zelf.inner.closed.load()
        {
-            // Ignore any errors (PyErr_WriteUnraisable)
            let obj: PyObjectRef = zelf.to_owned().into();
-            let _ = finalizer.call((obj,), vm);
        }
    }

@@ -496,11 +501,13 @@ impl PyAsyncGenAThrow {
    }
    fn yield_close(&self, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyBaseExceptionRef {
        self.ag.running_async.store(false);
        self.state.store(AwaitableState::Closed);
        vm.new_runtime_error("async generator ignored GeneratorExit")
    }
    fn check_error(&self, exc: PyBaseExceptionRef, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyBaseExceptionRef {
        self.ag.running_async.store(false);
        self.state.store(AwaitableState::Closed);
        if self.aclose
            && (exc.fast_isinstance(vm.ctx.exceptions.stop_async_iteration)
@@ -687,12 +694,14 @@ impl IterNext for PyAnextAwaitable {
/// _PyGen_Finalize for async generators
impl Destructor for PyAsyncGen {
    fn del(zelf: &Py<Self>, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<()> {
-        // Generator isn't paused, so no need to close
        if zelf.inner.closed.load() {
            return Ok(());
        }

        Self::call_finalizer(zelf, vm);
        Ok(())
    }
}