diff --git a/src/Tokenizers/BaseTokenizer.php b/src/Tokenizers/BaseTokenizer.php
index 744e1a0..3722eb4 100644
--- a/src/Tokenizers/BaseTokenizer.php
+++ b/src/Tokenizers/BaseTokenizer.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ abstract class BaseTokenizer
 
     private const SPACE_REPLACER = '&!@';
     private const SINGLE_QUOTE_REPLACER = '!*@';
+    private const EMPTY_STRING_REPLACER = '$$EMPTY_STRING';
 
     public function __construct(string $value)
     {
@@ -17,6 +18,10 @@ public function __construct(string $value)
         $prune = false;
         $pruneSingleQuotes = false;
 
+        if (preg_match("/(DEFAULT|COMMENT) ''/", $value, $matches)) {
+            $value = str_replace($matches[1] . ' \'\'', $matches[1] . ' ' . self::EMPTY_STRING_REPLACER, $value);
+        }
+
         //first get rid of any single quoted stuff with '' around it
         if (preg_match_all('/\'\'(.+?)\'\'/', $value, $matches)) {
             foreach ($matches[0] as $key => $singleQuoted) {
@@ -25,9 +30,6 @@ public function __construct(string $value)
                 $pruneSingleQuotes = true;
             }
         }
-        if (preg_match('/\'\'/', $value)) {
-            $value = str_replace('\'\'', '$$EMPTY_STRING', $value);
-        }
 
         if (preg_match_all("/'(.+?)'/", $value, $matches)) {
             foreach ($matches[0] as $quoteWithSpace) {
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ public function __construct(string $value)
                 $prune = true;
             }
         }
-        $value = str_replace('$$EMPTY_STRING', '\'\'', $value);
+        $value = str_replace(self::EMPTY_STRING_REPLACER, '\'\'', $value);
         $this->tokens = array_map(function ($item) {
             return trim($item, ', ');
         }, str_getcsv($value, ' ', "'"));
diff --git a/tests/Unit/GeneratorManagers/MySQLGeneratorManagerTest.php b/tests/Unit/GeneratorManagers/MySQLGeneratorManagerTest.php
index 74615c4..cffa79c 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/GeneratorManagers/MySQLGeneratorManagerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/GeneratorManagers/MySQLGeneratorManagerTest.php
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ public function test_can_remove_database_prefix()
         $mocked->addTableDefinition($definition);
         $this->assertEquals('posts', $definition->getTableName());
 
-
         config()->set('database.connections.' . $connection . '.prefix', '');
 
         $definition = (new TableDefinition())->setTableName('wp_posts');
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Tokenizers/MySQL/ColumnTokenizerTest.php b/tests/Unit/Tokenizers/MySQL/ColumnTokenizerTest.php
index ab97662..be10bc6 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Tokenizers/MySQL/ColumnTokenizerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Tokenizers/MySQL/ColumnTokenizerTest.php
@@ -149,6 +149,14 @@ public function test_it_tokenizes_varchar_with_default_empty_string_and_comment(
         $this->assertEquals('this is the "comment"', $columnDefinition->getComment());
     }
 
+    public function test_it_tokenizes_varchar_with_default_empty_string_and_comment_with_apostrophe()
+    {
+        $columnTokenizer = ColumnTokenizer::parse("`testing` varchar(255) DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'this is the \"comment\" ''inside single quote''");
+        $columnDefinition = $columnTokenizer->definition();
+        $this->assertEquals('', $columnDefinition->getDefaultValue());
+        $this->assertEquals('this is the "comment" \'inside single quote\'', $columnDefinition->getComment());
+    }
+
     public function test_it_tokenizes_varchar_with_boolean_literal_default()
     {
         $columnTokenizer = ColumnTokenizer::parse("`testing` bit(2) DEFAULT b'10'");