I.grabTextFrom() fails when there is no text

[nvadiga]

I have a table with following structure and I want to get text inside "p" tag. Text can be empty. In such cases I.grabTextFrom() fails with ElementNotFound exception. I was expecting it to return "" (empty string). Even the try catch block won't catch this exception. Any workaround for this issue?

Sample HTML

<tr>
<td><p>Field1</p></td>
<td><p></p>sometext</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><p>Field2</p></td>
<td><p></p></td>
</tr>

Code to grabtext

 let element = { xpath: `//p[text()='${fieldName}']/following::p` };
    try {
      // I see element passes fine 
      I.seeElement(element);
      return await I.grabTextFrom(element);
    } catch (error) {
      return "";
    }

Error

Element "xpath=//p[text()='Field2']/following::p" was not found by text|CSS|XPath
      at new ElementNotFound (node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper/errors/ElementNotFound.js:15:11)
      at assertElementExists (node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper/Playwright.js:3742:11)
      at Playwright.grabTextFrom (node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper/Playwright.js:2089:5)

Codeceptjs: 3.6.5
Browser: chromium
Helper: Playwright