diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3854985e576bb2479ee6d6190f7cc599143a19f1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Return more consistent values for merge_status on MR APIs
-merge_request:
-author:
-type: fixed
diff --git a/lib/api/entities.rb b/lib/api/entities.rb
index 5b470bd3479695838744b075cc6f89178ba7aadb..7b9a80a234bb44d618fd3561d4e5a5da1bb380e0 100644
--- a/lib/api/entities.rb
+++ b/lib/api/entities.rb
@@ -507,16 +507,7 @@ module API
       expose :work_in_progress?, as: :work_in_progress
       expose :milestone, using: Entities::Milestone
       expose :merge_when_pipeline_succeeds
-
-      # Ideally we should deprecate `MergeRequest#merge_status` exposure and
-      # use `MergeRequest#mergeable?` instead (boolean).
-      # See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42344 for more
-      # information.
-      expose :merge_status do |merge_request|
-        # In order to avoid having a breaking change for users, we keep returning the
-        # expected values from MergeRequest#merge_status state machine.
-        merge_request.mergeable? ? 'can_be_merged' : 'cannot_be_merged'
-      end
+      expose :merge_status
       expose :diff_head_sha, as: :sha
       expose :merge_commit_sha
       expose :user_notes_count