diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/find_error_fix.yml b/changelogs/fragments/find_error_fix.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4dcbd5a2f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/find_error_fix.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - find action, correctly convert path to text when warning about skiping.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
index 6841274e119..1b81da71e8f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
@@ -512,8 +512,8 @@ def main():
                 if not params['recurse']:
                     break
         except Exception as e:
-            module.warn("Skipped '%s' path due to this access issue: %s\n" % (npath, to_text(e)))
             skipped[npath] = to_text(e)
+            module.warn("Skipped '%s' path due to this access issue: %s\n" % (to_text(npath), skipped[npath]))
             has_warnings = True
 
     if has_warnings: