diff --git a/src/services/utilities.ts b/src/services/utilities.ts
index 1fb8a23043ef7..d57f267ea977c 100644
--- a/src/services/utilities.ts
+++ b/src/services/utilities.ts
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ namespace ts {
         // Editors can pass in undefined or empty string - we want to infer the preference in those cases.
         const quotePreference = getQuotePreference(sourceFile, preferences);
         const quoted = JSON.stringify(text);
-        return quotePreference === QuotePreference.Single ? `'${stripQuotes(quoted).replace("'", "\\'").replace('\\"', '"')}'` : quoted;
+        return quotePreference === QuotePreference.Single ? `'${stripQuotes(quoted).replace(/'/g, "\\'").replace(/\\"/g, '"')}'` : quoted;
     }
 
     export function isEqualityOperatorKind(kind: SyntaxKind): kind is EqualityOperator {
diff --git a/tests/cases/fourslash/completionForStringLiteral_quotePreference8.ts b/tests/cases/fourslash/completionForStringLiteral_quotePreference8.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9e66dcb1fe953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/fourslash/completionForStringLiteral_quotePreference8.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/// <reference path='fourslash.ts'/>
+
+// @filename: /a.ts
+////export const a = null;
+
+// @filename: /b.ts
+////import { a } from './a';
+////
+////const foo = { '"a name\'s all good but it\'s better with more"': null };
+////foo[|./**/|]
+
+goTo.file("/b.ts");
+verify.completions({
+    marker: "",
+    exact: [
+        { name: "\"a name's all good but it's better with more\"", insertText: "['\"a name\\'s all good but it\\'s better with more\"']", replacementSpan: test.ranges()[0] },
+    ],
+    preferences: {
+        includeInsertTextCompletions: true,
+        quotePreference: "auto"
+    }
+});