diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_exceptions.py b/litellm/tests/test_exceptions.py
index fb390bb488..8d05996090 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_exceptions.py
@@ -414,6 +414,35 @@ def test_completion_mistral_exception():
 # test_completion_mistral_exception()
 
 
+def test_completion_bedrock_invalid_role_exception():
+    """
+    Test if litellm raises a BadRequestError for an invalid role on Bedrock
+    """
+    try:
+        litellm.set_verbose = True
+        response = completion(
+            model="bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-sonnet-20240229-v1:0",
+            messages=[{"role": "very-bad-role", "content": "hello"}],
+        )
+        print(f"response: {response}")
+        print(response)
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        assert isinstance(
+            e, litellm.BadRequestError
+        ), "Expected BadRequestError but got {}".format(type(e))
+        print("str(e) = {}".format(str(e)))
+
+        # This is important - We we previously returning a poorly formatted error string. Which was
+        #  litellm.BadRequestError: litellm.BadRequestError: Invalid Message passed in {'role': 'very-bad-role', 'content': 'hello'}
+
+        # IMPORTANT ASSERTION
+        assert (
+            (str(e))
+            == "litellm.BadRequestError: Invalid Message passed in {'role': 'very-bad-role', 'content': 'hello'}"
+        )
+
+
 def test_content_policy_exceptionimage_generation_openai():
     try:
         # this is ony a test - we needed some way to invoke the exception :(