diff --git a/Lib/_pyrepl/simple_interact.py b/Lib/_pyrepl/simple_interact.py
index 30a128a1218384..2c3dffe070c629 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyrepl/simple_interact.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyrepl/simple_interact.py
@@ -157,7 +157,15 @@ def maybe_run_command(statement: str) -> bool:
             assert not more
             input_n += 1
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
-            console.write("KeyboardInterrupt\n")
+            r = _get_reader()
+            if r.last_command and 'isearch' in r.last_command.__name__:
+                r.isearch_direction = ''
+                r.console.forgetinput()
+                r.pop_input_trans()
+                r.dirty = True
+            r.refresh()
+            r.in_bracketed_paste = False
+            console.write("\nKeyboardInterrupt\n")
             console.resetbuffer()
         except MemoryError:
             console.write("\nMemoryError\n")
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-15-20-03-29.gh-issue-121295.w53ucI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-15-20-03-29.gh-issue-121295.w53ucI.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7fca7d5461d39b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-15-20-03-29.gh-issue-121295.w53ucI.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix PyREPL console getting into a blocked state after interrupting a long
+paste