diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 9d39acc376cbbd..b6c706efaf9fea 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -7522,11 +7522,6 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTypefaceUtils {
 	public static fun parseFontWeight (Ljava/lang/String;)I
 }
 
-public class com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode : com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactBaseTextShadowNode {
-	public fun <init> ()V
-	public fun isVirtual ()Z
-}
-
 public class com/facebook/react/views/text/TextAttributeProps {
 	public static final field TA_KEY_ACCESSIBILITY_ROLE S
 	public static final field TA_KEY_ALIGNMENT S
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.kt
similarity index 50%
rename from packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.java
rename to packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.kt
index 3c6949a3081ef7..bb98579ccf8561 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactVirtualTextShadowNode.kt
@@ -5,15 +5,10 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-package com.facebook.react.views.text;
+package com.facebook.react.views.text
 
 /** A virtual text node. */
-public class ReactVirtualTextShadowNode extends ReactBaseTextShadowNode {
+internal class ReactVirtualTextShadowNode : ReactBaseTextShadowNode() {
 
-  @Override
-  public boolean isVirtual() {
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  public ReactVirtualTextShadowNode() {}
+  override fun isVirtual(): Boolean = true
 }