diff --git a/pkg/logql/log/label_filter.go b/pkg/logql/log/label_filter.go
index 1fda5430b7..279669e5a7 100644
--- a/pkg/logql/log/label_filter.go
+++ b/pkg/logql/log/label_filter.go
@@ -368,6 +368,16 @@ type lineFilterLabelFilter struct {
 	filter Filterer
 }
 
+// overrides the matcher.String() function in case there is a regexpFilter
+func (s *lineFilterLabelFilter) String() string {
+	if unwrappedFilter, ok := s.filter.(regexpFilter); ok {
+		rStr := unwrappedFilter.String()
+		str := fmt.Sprintf(`%s%s"%s"`, s.Matcher.Name, s.Matcher.Type, rStr)
+		return str
+	}
+	return s.Matcher.String()
+}
+
 func (s *lineFilterLabelFilter) Process(_ int64, line []byte, lbs *LabelsBuilder) ([]byte, bool) {
 	v := labelValue(s.Name, lbs)
 	return line, s.filter.Filter(unsafeGetBytes(v))
diff --git a/pkg/logql/syntax/parser_test.go b/pkg/logql/syntax/parser_test.go
index 819fdd1ca1..f5a21c21f8 100644
--- a/pkg/logql/syntax/parser_test.go
+++ b/pkg/logql/syntax/parser_test.go
@@ -3465,3 +3465,13 @@ func TestNoOpLabelToString(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	require.Len(t, stages, 0)
 }
+
+// Tests that the regex part of expr doesn't get doubly escaped when we call expr.String()
+func TestParseSampleExpr_String(t *testing.T) {
+	query := `sum(rate({cluster="beep", namespace="boop"} | msg=~` + "`" + `.*?(GET|POST|PUT|DELETE|PATCH|HEAD|OPTIONS) /loki/api/(?i)(\d+[a-z]|[a-z]+\d)\w*/query_range` + "`" + `[1d]))`
+	expr, err := ParseSampleExpr(query)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// need to change some backticks to " in order for query to be exactly equal to expr.String(), otherwise it's the same query
+	expected := `sum(rate({cluster="beep", namespace="boop"} | msg=~".*?(GET|POST|PUT|DELETE|PATCH|HEAD|OPTIONS) /loki/api/(?i)(\d+[a-z]|[a-z]+\d)\w*/query_range"[1d]))`
+	require.Equal(t, expected, expr.String())
+}