diff --git a/p2p/trust/metric.go b/p2p/trust/metric.go
index 0ee39a798..3a0bf4809 100644
--- a/p2p/trust/metric.go
+++ b/p2p/trust/metric.go
@@ -165,8 +165,15 @@ func (tm *TrustMetric) Pause() {
 }
 
 // Stop tells the metric to stop recording data over time intervals
+// This method also blocks until the metric has completely stopped
 func (tm *TrustMetric) Stop() {
 	tm.stop <- struct{}{}
+
+	wait := make(chan struct{})
+
+	if tm.AddStopWaitChannel(wait) {
+		<-wait
+	}
 }
 
 // BadEvents indicates that an undesirable event(s) took place
@@ -307,15 +314,6 @@ func (tm *TrustMetric) AddTimeIntervalWaitChannel(interval chan struct{}) bool {
 	return added
 }
 
-// WaitForStop blocks until the metric has completely stopped
-func (tm *TrustMetric) WaitForStop() {
-	stop := make(chan struct{})
-
-	if tm.AddStopWaitChannel(stop) {
-		<-stop
-	}
-}
-
 // SignalStopped fires all the maintained signal channels and sets
 // metric stopped status to true
 func (tm *TrustMetric) SignalStopped() {
diff --git a/p2p/trust/metric_test.go b/p2p/trust/metric_test.go
index 89077e1fa..a83848ced 100644
--- a/p2p/trust/metric_test.go
+++ b/p2p/trust/metric_test.go
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ func TestTrustMetricStopPause(t *testing.T) {
 	tm.NextTimeInterval()
 	tm.NextTimeInterval()
 	tm.Stop()
-	// Wait for the stop to take place
-	tm.WaitForStop()
 
 	second := tm.Copy().numIntervals
 	// Allow more intervals to pass and check that the number of intervals match