diff --git a/terraform/node_resource_destroy.go b/terraform/node_resource_destroy.go
index c5042436dde4..0374d83ddbd3 100644
--- a/terraform/node_resource_destroy.go
+++ b/terraform/node_resource_destroy.go
@@ -277,15 +277,43 @@ func (n *NodeDestroyResourceInstance) EvalTree() EvalNode {
 // leaving skeleton resource objects in state after their instances have
 // all been destroyed.
 type NodeDestroyResource struct {
-	NodeAbstractResource *NodeAbstractResource
+	*NodeAbstractResource
 }
 
 var (
-	_ GraphNodeEvalable = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+	_ GraphNodeResource      = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+	_ GraphNodeReferenceable = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+	_ GraphNodeReferencer    = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+	_ GraphNodeEvalable      = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+
+	// FIXME: this is here to document that this node is both
+	// GraphNodeProviderConsumer by virtue of the embedded
+	// NodeAbstractResource, but that behavior is not desired and we skip it by
+	// checking for GraphNodeNoProvider.
+	_ GraphNodeProviderConsumer = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
+	_ GraphNodeNoProvider       = (*NodeDestroyResource)(nil)
 )
 
 func (n *NodeDestroyResource) Name() string {
-	return n.NodeAbstractResource.ResourceAddr().String() + " (clean up state)"
+	return n.ResourceAddr().String() + " (clean up state)"
+}
+
+// GraphNodeReferenceable, overriding NodeAbstractResource
+func (n *NodeDestroyResource) ReferenceableAddrs() []addrs.Referenceable {
+	// NodeDestroyResource doesn't participate in references: the graph
+	// builder that created it should ensure directly that it already depends
+	// on every other node related to its resource, without relying on
+	// references.
+	return nil
+}
+
+// GraphNodeReferencer, overriding NodeAbstractResource
+func (n *NodeDestroyResource) References() []*addrs.Reference {
+	// NodeDestroyResource doesn't participate in references: the graph
+	// builder that created it should ensure directly that it already depends
+	// on every other node related to its resource, without relying on
+	// references.
+	return nil
 }
 
 // GraphNodeEvalable
@@ -295,6 +323,26 @@ func (n *NodeDestroyResource) EvalTree() EvalNode {
 	// leftover husk of a resource in state after all of the child instances
 	// and their objects were destroyed.
 	return &EvalForgetResourceState{
-		Addr: n.NodeAbstractResource.ResourceAddr().Resource,
+		Addr: n.ResourceAddr().Resource,
 	}
 }
+
+// GraphNodeResource
+func (n *NodeDestroyResource) ResourceAddr() addrs.AbsResource {
+	return n.NodeAbstractResource.ResourceAddr()
+}
+
+// GraphNodeSubpath
+func (n *NodeDestroyResource) Path() addrs.ModuleInstance {
+	return n.NodeAbstractResource.Path()
+}
+
+// GraphNodeNoProvider
+// FIXME: this should be removed once the node can be separated from the
+// Internal NodeAbstractResource behavior.
+func (n *NodeDestroyResource) NoProvider() {
+}
+
+type GraphNodeNoProvider interface {
+	NoProvider()
+}
diff --git a/terraform/transform_provider.go b/terraform/transform_provider.go
index 8b8dff86fa75..8cfb0b5cb58b 100644
--- a/terraform/transform_provider.go
+++ b/terraform/transform_provider.go
@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ func (t *ProviderTransformer) Transform(g *Graph) error {
 	needConfigured := map[string]addrs.AbsProviderConfig{}
 	for _, v := range g.Vertices() {
 
+		// FIXME: fix the type that implements this, so it's not a
+		// GraphNodeProviderConsumer.
+		// check if we want to skip connecting this to a provider
+		if _, ok := v.(GraphNodeNoProvider); ok {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		// Does the vertex _directly_ use a provider?
 		if pv, ok := v.(GraphNodeProviderConsumer); ok {
 			requested[v] = make(map[string]ProviderRequest)
@@ -275,6 +282,13 @@ func (t *MissingProviderTransformer) Transform(g *Graph) error {
 	var err error
 	m := providerVertexMap(g)
 	for _, v := range g.Vertices() {
+		// FIXME: fix the type that implements this, so it's not a
+		// GraphNodeProviderConsumer.
+		// check if we want to skip connecting this to a provider
+		if _, ok := v.(GraphNodeNoProvider); ok {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		pv, ok := v.(GraphNodeProviderConsumer)
 		if !ok {
 			continue