diff --git a/code/addons/interactions/src/preview.ts b/code/addons/interactions/src/preview.ts
index 6abc30f63b93..482b6933279f 100644
--- a/code/addons/interactions/src/preview.ts
+++ b/code/addons/interactions/src/preview.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import type { PlayFunction, StepLabel, StoryContext } from 'storybook/internal/types';
 
 import { instrument } from '@storybook/instrumenter';
+// This makes sure that storybook test loaders are always loaded when addon-interactions is used
+// For 9.0 we want to merge storybook/test and addon-interactions into one addon.
+import '@storybook/test';
 
 export const { step: runStep } = instrument(
   {