diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManager.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManager.kt
index 8f762006af5b..d906e9d78e6b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManager.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManager.kt
@@ -902,7 +902,12 @@ internal object TextLayoutManager {
             }
           }
         }
-    val enableStartOverhang = widthYogaMeasureMode == YogaMeasureMode.EXACTLY
+    // Bounds-based width is limited to text with RTL characters. An EXACTLY width usually comes
+    // from an earlier advance-based AT_MOST measurement, and LTR glyph bounds that are wider than
+    // their advances (some OEM fonts) would make a single line overflow that width and ellipsize.
+    val enableStartOverhang =
+        widthYogaMeasureMode == YogaMeasureMode.EXACTLY &&
+            TextDirectionHeuristics.ANYRTL_LTR.isRtl(text, 0, text.length)
     val layout =
         buildLayout(
             text,
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManagerStartOverhangTest.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManagerStartOverhangTest.kt
index ecbdbf71a694..ee7001d3ba76 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManagerStartOverhangTest.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextLayoutManagerStartOverhangTest.kt
@@ -46,6 +46,29 @@ class TextLayoutManagerStartOverhangTest {
     assertThat(getBooleanLayoutProperty(layout, "getShiftDrawingOffsetForStartOverhang")).isFalse()
   }
 
+  @Test
+  @Config(sdk = [35])
+  fun `EXACTLY mode keeps advance based width measurement for LTR text`() {
+    val layout =
+        createLayout(
+            YogaMeasureMode.EXACTLY,
+            text = SpannableString("Just listed"),
+            ellipsizeMode = TextUtils.TruncateAt.END,
+            maxNumberOfLines = 1,
+        )
+
+    assertThat(getBooleanLayoutProperty(layout, "getUseBoundsForWidth")).isFalse()
+    assertThat(getBooleanLayoutProperty(layout, "getShiftDrawingOffsetForStartOverhang")).isFalse()
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  @Config(sdk = [35])
+  fun `EXACTLY mode enables start overhang support for mixed LTR and RTL text`() {
+    val layout = createLayout(YogaMeasureMode.EXACTLY, text = SpannableString("Hello שלום"))
+
+    assertThat(getBooleanLayoutProperty(layout, "getUseBoundsForWidth")).isTrue()
+  }
+
   @Test
   @Config(sdk = [35])
   fun `RTL right overhang is rounded up to reserve whole pixels`() {