diff --git a/django/db/migrations/questioner.py b/django/db/migrations/questioner.py
index a7e21969b54..aef80f4a523 100644
--- a/django/db/migrations/questioner.py
+++ b/django/db/migrations/questioner.py
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ class InteractiveMigrationQuestioner(MigrationQuestioner):
                 [
                     "Provide a one-off default now (will be set on all existing rows)",
                     ("Ignore for now, and let me handle existing rows with NULL myself "
-                     "(e.g. adding a RunPython or RunSQL operation in the new migration "
-                     "file before the AlterField operation)"),
+                     "(e.g. because you added a RunPython or RunSQL operation to handle "
+                     "NULL values in a previous data migration)"),
                     "Quit, and let me add a default in models.py",
                 ]
             )