diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 594b7c12b05..93861d2b9dc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-- Make log sdk add exception.message to logRecord for exceptions whose argument 
+- Make log sdk add `exception.message` to logRecord for exceptions whose argument 
   is an exception not a string message
   ([#4122](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4122))
 - Fix use of `link.attributes.dropped`, which may not exist
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
index cecaaeba4b4..56d78ce653a 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
@@ -491,15 +491,9 @@ def _get_attributes(record: logging.LogRecord) -> Attributes:
             if exctype is not None:
                 attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE] = exctype.__name__
             if value is not None and value.args:
-                if type(value.args[0]) is str:
-                    attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE] = value.args[
-                        0
-                    ]
-                else:
-                    if value.args[0] is not None and value.args[0].args:
-                        attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE] = (
-                            value.args[0].args[0]
-                        )
+                attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE] = str(
+                    value.args[0]
+                )
             if tb is not None:
                 # https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/9fa7c656b26647b27e485a6af7e38dc716eba98a/specification/trace/semantic_conventions/exceptions.md#stacktrace-representation
                 attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE] = "".join(
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_handler.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_handler.py
index c276031ca07..bcd75914568 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_handler.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_handler.py
@@ -174,7 +174,9 @@ def test_log_record_recursive_exception(self):
         processor, logger = set_up_test_logging(logging.ERROR)
 
         try:
-            raise ZeroDivisionError(ZeroDivisionError("division by zero"))
+            raise ZeroDivisionError(
+                ZeroDivisionError(ZeroDivisionError("division by zero"))
+            )
         except ZeroDivisionError:
             with self.assertLogs(level=logging.ERROR):
                 logger.exception("Zero Division Error")
@@ -189,7 +191,7 @@ def test_log_record_recursive_exception(self):
         )
         self.assertEqual(
             log_record.attributes[SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE],
-            "division by zero",
+            """ZeroDivisionError(ZeroDivisionError("division by zero"))""",
         )
         stack_trace = log_record.attributes[
             SpanAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE