diff --git a/.changeset/hot-ducks-end.md b/.changeset/hot-ducks-end.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5755ee8883f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/hot-ducks-end.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"gradio": patch
+---
+
+fix:added try except block in `state.py`
diff --git a/gradio/components/state.py b/gradio/components/state.py
index 9722fa31e524..c027875b090f 100644
--- a/gradio/components/state.py
+++ b/gradio/components/state.py
@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ def __init__(
             value: the initial value (of arbitrary type) of the state. The provided argument is deepcopied. If a callable is provided, the function will be called whenever the app loads to set the initial value of the state.
         """
         self.stateful = True
-        IOComponent.__init__(self, value=deepcopy(value), **kwargs)
+        try:
+            self.value = deepcopy(value)
+        except TypeError as err:
+            raise TypeError(
+                f"The initial value of `gr.State` must be able to be deepcopied. The initial value of type {type(value)} cannot be deepcopied."
+            ) from err
+        IOComponent.__init__(self, value=self.value, **kwargs)
 
 
 class Variable(State):
diff --git a/test/test_components.py b/test/test_components.py
index a7427a374a6a..34b6c929959b 100644
--- a/test/test_components.py
+++ b/test/test_components.py
@@ -2417,6 +2417,10 @@ def test_as_component(self):
         assert state.preprocess("abc") == "abc"
         assert state.stateful
 
+    def test_initial_value_deepcopy(self):
+        with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+            gr.State(value=gr)  # modules are not deepcopyable
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_in_interface(self):
         def test(x, y=" def"):