diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dd255f9fb2e..e7c4fd9fc70 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
   - This was causing Sentry SDK to log warnings: "Sentry Log is disabled and this 'logger' call is a no-op."
 - Do not use Sentry logging API in Log4j2 if logs are disabled ([#4573](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4573))
   - This was causing Sentry SDK to log warnings: "Sentry Log is disabled and this 'logger' call is a no-op."
+- Reduce scope forking when using OpenTelemetry ([#4565](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4565))
+  - `Sentry.withScope` now has the correct current scope passed to the callback. Previously our OpenTelemetry integration forked scopes an additional.
+  - Overall the SDK is now forking scopes a bit less often.
 
 ## 8.17.0
 
diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/api/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap.api b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/api/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap.api
index 8e6b59b4be2..3a63bf04d98 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/api/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap.api
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/api/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap.api
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ public final class io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorage : io/opentelemet
 	public fun <init> (Lio/opentelemetry/context/ContextStorage;)V
 	public fun attach (Lio/opentelemetry/context/Context;)Lio/opentelemetry/context/Scope;
 	public fun current ()Lio/opentelemetry/context/Context;
+	public fun root ()Lio/opentelemetry/context/Context;
 }
 
 public final class io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorageProvider : io/opentelemetry/context/ContextStorageProvider {
diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorage.java b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorage.java
index 4f3efa40c29..5a916a9ecab 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorage.java
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextStorage.java
@@ -38,4 +38,9 @@ public Scope attach(Context toAttach) {
   public Context current() {
     return contextStorage.current();
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public Context root() {
+    return SentryContextWrapper.wrap(ContextStorage.super.root());
+  }
 }
diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextWrapper.java b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextWrapper.java
index a0213bafe65..1b0581fc9e2 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextWrapper.java
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SentryContextWrapper.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public <V> Context with(final @NotNull ContextKey<V> contextKey, V v) {
     if (isOpentelemetrySpan(contextKey)) {
       return forkCurrentScope(modifiedContext);
     } else {
-      return modifiedContext;
+      return new SentryContextWrapper(modifiedContext);
     }
   }