diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b1f1314
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/583-k8s_scale-clean-handling-of-ResourceTimeout-exception.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - k8s_scale - clean handling of ResourceTimeout exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/583).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/k8s_scale.py b/plugins/modules/k8s_scale.py
index a7cdfe1e..6671ceb7 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/k8s_scale.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/k8s_scale.py
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ def scale(
                 namespace=namespace,
             )
             if not success:
-                raise ResourceTimeout("Resource scaling timed out", **result)
+                raise ResourceTimeout("Resource scaling timed out", result)
 
     match, diffs = diff_objects(existing.to_dict(), result["result"])
     result["changed"] = not match