diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 646309e2a..11095b765 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap v1.0.1
 	github.com/mitchellh/gox v1.0.1
 	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.1.2
-	github.com/mitchellh/panicwrap v1.0.0
 	github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2
 	github.com/nishanths/exhaustive v0.2.3
 	github.com/packer-community/winrmcp v0.0.0-20180921211025-c76d91c1e7db
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index bd8b487fb..0fb3794c2 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -515,8 +515,6 @@ github.com/mitchellh/iochan v1.0.0/go.mod h1:JwYml1nuB7xOzsp52dPpHFffvOCDupsG0Qu
 github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v0.0.0-20160808181253-ca63d7c062ee/go.mod h1:FVVH3fgwuzCH5S8UJGiWEs2h04kUh9fWfEaFds41c1Y=
 github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.1.2 h1:fmNYVwqnSfB9mZU6OS2O6GsXM+wcskZDuKQzvN1EDeE=
 github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.1.2/go.mod h1:FVVH3fgwuzCH5S8UJGiWEs2h04kUh9fWfEaFds41c1Y=
-github.com/mitchellh/panicwrap v1.0.0 h1:67zIyVakCIvcs69A0FGfZjBdPleaonSgGlXRSRlb6fE=
-github.com/mitchellh/panicwrap v1.0.0/go.mod h1:pKvZHwWrZowLUzftuFq7coarnxbBXU4aQh3N0BJOeeA=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.0/go.mod h1:mSTlrgnPZtwu0c4WaC2kGObEpuNDbx0jmZXqmk4esnw=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2 h1:G2LzWKi524PWgd3mLHV8Y5k7s6XUvT0Gef6zxSIeXaQ=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2/go.mod h1:mSTlrgnPZtwu0c4WaC2kGObEpuNDbx0jmZXqmk4esnw=
diff --git a/internal/command/console_interactive.go b/internal/command/console_interactive.go
index c9d63245c..15fde13b4 100644
--- a/internal/command/console_interactive.go
+++ b/internal/command/console_interactive.go
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 
-	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/helper/wrappedreadline"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/repl"
 
 	"github.com/chzyer/readline"
@@ -19,12 +18,12 @@ import (
 
 func (c *ConsoleCommand) modeInteractive(session *repl.Session, ui cli.Ui) int {
 	// Configure input
-	l, err := readline.NewEx(wrappedreadline.Override(&readline.Config{
+	l, err := readline.NewEx(&readline.Config{
 		Prompt:            "> ",
 		InterruptPrompt:   "^C",
 		EOFPrompt:         "exit",
 		HistorySearchFold: true,
-	}))
+	})
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Ui.Error(fmt.Sprintf(
 			"Error initializing console: %s",
diff --git a/internal/terminal/panicwrap_ugh.go b/internal/terminal/panicwrap_ugh.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b17165b2c..000000000
--- a/internal/terminal/panicwrap_ugh.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-package terminal
-
-import "os"
-
-// This file has some annoying nonsense to, yet again, work around the
-// panicwrap hack.
-//
-// Specifically, typically when we're running Terraform the stderr handle is
-// not directly connected to the terminal but is instead a pipe into a parent
-// process gathering up the output just in case a panic message appears.
-// However, this package needs to know whether the _real_ stderr is connected
-// to a terminal and what its width is.
-//
-// To work around that, we'll first initialize the terminal in the parent
-// process, and then capture information about stderr into an environment
-// variable so we can pass it down to the child process. The child process
-// will then use the environment variable to pretend that the panicwrap pipe
-// has the same characteristics as the terminal that it's indirectly writing
-// to.
-//
-// This file has some helpers for implementing that awkward handshake, but the
-// handshake itself is in package main, interspersed with all of the other
-// panicwrap machinery.
-//
-// You might think that the code in helper/wrappedstreams could avoid this
-// problem, but that package is broken on Windows: it always fails to recover
-// the real stderr, and it also gets an incorrect result if the user was
-// redirecting or piping stdout/stdin. So... we have this hack instead, which
-// gets a correct result even on Windows and even with I/O redirection.
-
-// StateForAfterPanicWrap is part of the workaround for panicwrap that
-// captures some characteristics of stderr that the caller can pass to the
-// panicwrap child process somehow and then use ReinitInsidePanicWrap.
-func (s *Streams) StateForAfterPanicWrap() *PrePanicwrapState {
-	return &PrePanicwrapState{
-		StderrIsTerminal: s.Stderr.IsTerminal(),
-		StderrWidth:      s.Stderr.Columns(),
-	}
-}
-
-// ReinitInsidePanicwrap is part of the workaround for panicwrap that
-// produces a Streams containing a potentially-lying Stderr that might
-// claim to be a terminal even if it's actually a pipe connected to the
-// parent process.
-//
-// That's an okay lie in practice because the parent process will copy any
-// data it recieves via that pipe verbatim to the real stderr anyway. (The
-// original call to Init in the parent process should've already done any
-// necessary modesetting on the Stderr terminal, if any.)
-//
-// The state argument can be nil if we're not running in panicwrap mode,
-// in which case this function behaves exactly the same as Init.
-func ReinitInsidePanicwrap(state *PrePanicwrapState) (*Streams, error) {
-	ret, err := Init()
-	if err != nil {
-		return ret, err
-	}
-	if state != nil {
-		// A lying stderr, then.
-		ret.Stderr = &OutputStream{
-			File: ret.Stderr.File,
-			isTerminal: func(f *os.File) bool {
-				return state.StderrIsTerminal
-			},
-			getColumns: func(f *os.File) int {
-				return state.StderrWidth
-			},
-		}
-	}
-	return ret, nil
-}
-
-// PrePanicwrapState is a horrible thing we use to work around panicwrap,
-// related to both Streams.StateForAfterPanicWrap and ReinitInsidePanicwrap.
-type PrePanicwrapState struct {
-	StderrIsTerminal bool
-	StderrWidth      int
-}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 793db83c8..99e2c58a3 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"net"
 	"os"
@@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mattn/go-shellwords"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/colorstring"
-	"github.com/mitchellh/panicwrap"
 
 	backendInit "github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/backend/init"
 )
@@ -35,12 +33,6 @@ const (
 
 	// The parent process will create a file to collect crash logs
 	envTmpLogPath = "TF_TEMP_LOG_PATH"
-
-	// Environment variable name used for smuggling true stderr terminal
-	// settings into a panicwrap child process. This is an implementation
-	// detail, subject to change in future, and should not ever be directly
-	// set by an end-user.
-	envTerminalPanicwrapWorkaround = "TF_PANICWRAP_STDERR"
 )
 
 // ui wraps the primary output cli.Ui, and redirects Warn calls to Output
@@ -54,67 +46,6 @@ func (u *ui) Warn(msg string) {
 	u.Ui.Output(msg)
 }
 
-func main() {
-	os.Exit(realMain())
-}
-
-func realMain() int {
-	var wrapConfig panicwrap.WrapConfig
-
-	// don't re-exec terraform as a child process for easier debugging
-	if os.Getenv("TF_FORK") == "0" {
-		return wrappedMain()
-	}
-
-	if !panicwrap.Wrapped(&wrapConfig) {
-		// We always send logs to a temporary file that we use in case
-		// there is a panic. Otherwise, we delete it.
-		logTempFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "terraform-log")
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Couldn't set up logging tempfile: %s", err)
-			return 1
-		}
-		// Now that we have the file, close it and leave it for the wrapped
-		// process to write to.
-		logTempFile.Close()
-		defer os.Remove(logTempFile.Name())
-
-		// store the path in the environment for the wrapped executable
-		os.Setenv(envTmpLogPath, logTempFile.Name())
-
-		// We also need to do our terminal initialization before we fork,
-		// because the child process doesn't necessarily have access to
-		// the true stderr in order to initialize it.
-		streams, err := terminal.Init()
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Failed to initialize terminal: %s", err)
-			return 1
-		}
-
-		// We need the child process to behave _as if_ connected to the real
-		// stderr, even though panicwrap is about to add a pipe in the way,
-		// so we'll smuggle the true stderr information in an environment
-		// varible.
-		streamState := streams.StateForAfterPanicWrap()
-		os.Setenv(envTerminalPanicwrapWorkaround, fmt.Sprintf("%t:%d", streamState.StderrIsTerminal, streamState.StderrWidth))
-
-		// Create the configuration for panicwrap and wrap our executable
-		wrapConfig.Handler = logging.PanicHandler(logTempFile.Name())
-		wrapConfig.IgnoreSignals = ignoreSignals
-		wrapConfig.ForwardSignals = forwardSignals
-		exitStatus, err := panicwrap.Wrap(&wrapConfig)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Couldn't start Terraform: %s", err)
-			return 1
-		}
-
-		return exitStatus
-	}
-
-	// Call the real main
-	return wrappedMain()
-}
-
 func init() {
 	Ui = &ui{&cli.BasicUi{
 		Writer:      os.Stdout,
@@ -123,7 +54,11 @@ func init() {
 	}}
 }
 
-func wrappedMain() int {
+func main() {
+	os.Exit(realMain())
+}
+
+func realMain() int {
 	var err error
 
 	tmpLogPath := os.Getenv(envTmpLogPath)
@@ -145,19 +80,7 @@ func wrappedMain() int {
 	log.Printf("[INFO] Go runtime version: %s", runtime.Version())
 	log.Printf("[INFO] CLI args: %#v", os.Args)
 
-	// This is the recieving end of our workaround to retain the metadata
-	// about the real stderr even though we're talking to it via the panicwrap
-	// pipe. See the call to StateForAfterPanicWrap above for the producer
-	// part of this.
-	var streamState *terminal.PrePanicwrapState
-	if raw := os.Getenv(envTerminalPanicwrapWorkaround); raw != "" {
-		streamState = &terminal.PrePanicwrapState{}
-		if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(raw, "%t:%d", &streamState.StderrIsTerminal, &streamState.StderrWidth); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("[WARN] %s is set but is incorrectly-formatted: %s", envTerminalPanicwrapWorkaround, err)
-			streamState = nil // leave it unset for a normal init, then
-		}
-	}
-	streams, err := terminal.ReinitInsidePanicwrap(streamState)
+	streams, err := terminal.Init()
 	if err != nil {
 		Ui.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to configure the terminal: %s", err))
 		return 1
diff --git a/main_test.go b/main_test.go
index 102ea44bb..15a09f283 100644
--- a/main_test.go
+++ b/main_test.go
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func TestMain_cliArgsFromEnv(t *testing.T) {
 			// Run it!
 			os.Args = args
 			testCommand.Args = nil
-			exit := wrappedMain()
+			exit := realMain()
 			if (exit != 0) != tc.Err {
 				t.Fatalf("bad: %d", exit)
 			}
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ func TestMain_cliArgsFromEnvAdvanced(t *testing.T) {
 			// Run it!
 			os.Args = args
 			testCommand.Args = nil
-			exit := wrappedMain()
+			exit := realMain()
 			if (exit != 0) != tc.Err {
 				t.Fatalf("unexpected exit status %d; want 0", exit)
 			}
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ func TestMain_autoComplete(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// Run it!
 	os.Args = []string{"terraform", "terraform", "versio"}
-	exit := wrappedMain()
+	exit := realMain()
 	if exit != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected exit status %d; want 0", exit)
 	}