diff --git a/src/classes/redis-connection.ts b/src/classes/redis-connection.ts
index 2111e8e514..3247b5fce1 100644
--- a/src/classes/redis-connection.ts
+++ b/src/classes/redis-connection.ts
@@ -288,13 +288,21 @@ export class RedisConnection extends EventEmitter {
       const status = this.status;
       this.status = 'closing';
       this.closing = true;
+
       try {
         if (status === 'ready') {
           // Not sure if we need to wait for this
           await this.initializing;
-          if (!this.shared) {
+        }
+        if (!this.shared) {
+          if (status == 'initializing') {
+            // If we have not still connected to Redis, we need to disconnect.
+            this._client.disconnect();
+          } else {
             await this._client.quit();
           }
+          // As IORedis does not update this status properly, we do it ourselves.
+          this._client['status'] = 'end';
         }
       } catch (error) {
         if (isNotConnectionError(error as Error)) {
diff --git a/tests/test_connection.ts b/tests/test_connection.ts
index d54c3202b3..037fe8e7a0 100644
--- a/tests/test_connection.ts
+++ b/tests/test_connection.ts
@@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ describe('connection', () => {
     await worker.close();
   });
 
+  it('should close underlying redis connection when closing fast', async () => {
+    const queue = new Queue('CALLS_JOB_QUEUE_NAME', {
+      connection: {
+        host: 'localhost',
+        port: 6379,
+      },
+    });
+
+    const client = queue['connection']['_client'];
+    await queue.close();
+
+    expect(client.status).to.be.eql('end');
+  });
+
   it('should recover from a connection loss', async () => {
     let processor;