diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation/proxy_wrappers.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation/proxy_wrappers.rb
index dec56715be..b22d0a6941 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation/proxy_wrappers.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation/proxy_wrappers.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ require 'active_support/inflector'
 module ActiveSupport
   module Deprecation
     class DeprecationProxy #:nodoc:
+      def self.new(*args, &block)
+        object = args.first
+        
+        return object unless object
+        super
+      end
+      
       instance_methods.each { |m| undef_method m unless m =~ /^__|^object_id$/ }
 
       # Don't give a deprecation warning on inspect since test/unit and error