diff --git a/src/PostObject.php b/src/PostObject.php
index b3345b2..3c58b45 100644
--- a/src/PostObject.php
+++ b/src/PostObject.php
@@ -225,7 +225,19 @@ function add_post_type_fields(\WP_Post_Type $post_type_object)
                             continue;
                         }
 
-                        $posts[] = new \WPGraphQL\Model\Post($translation);
+                        $model = new \WPGraphQL\Model\Post($translation);
+
+                        // If we do not filter out privates here wp-graphql will
+                        // crash with 'Cannot return null for non-nullable field
+                        // Post.id.'. This might be a wp-graphql bug.
+                        // Interestingly only fetching the id of the translated
+                        // post caused the crash. For example title is ok even
+                        // without this check
+                        if ($model->is_private()) {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+
+                        $posts[] = $model;
                     }
 
                     return $posts;
diff --git a/tests/wpunit/PostObjectQueryTest.php b/tests/wpunit/PostObjectQueryTest.php
index 4861b2a..b0166ca 100644
--- a/tests/wpunit/PostObjectQueryTest.php
+++ b/tests/wpunit/PostObjectQueryTest.php
@@ -170,6 +170,52 @@ public function testCanFetchTranslatedVersions()
         $this->assertEquals($expected, $data['data']['postBy']);
     }
 
+    public function testDraftTranslationDoesNotCrash()
+    {
+        $fi_post_id = wp_insert_post([
+            'post_title' => 'Finnish post version',
+            'post_content' => '',
+            'post_type' => 'post',
+            'post_status' => 'publish',
+        ]);
+        pll_set_post_language($fi_post_id, 'fi');
+
+        $en_post_id = wp_insert_post([
+            'post_title' => 'English post version',
+            'post_content' => '',
+            'post_type' => 'post',
+            'post_status' => 'draft',
+        ]);
+        pll_set_post_language($en_post_id, 'en');
+
+        pll_save_post_translations([
+            'en' => $en_post_id,
+            'fi' => $fi_post_id,
+        ]);
+
+        $query = "
+        query Post {
+            postBy(postId: $fi_post_id) {
+                title
+                translations {
+                  title
+                  id
+                }
+            }
+         }
+        ";
+
+        $data = do_graphql_request($query);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('errors', $data, print_r($data, true));
+
+        $expected = [
+            'title' => 'Finnish post version',
+            'translations' => [],
+        ];
+
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, $data['data']['postBy']);
+    }
+
     public function testCanFetchSingleTranslatedVersion()
     {
         $fi_post_id = wp_insert_post([