diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/CustomEvent.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/CustomEvent.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..25d046b2709dd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/CustomEvent.js
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @flow strict
+ * @format
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This module implements the `CustomEvent` interface from the DOM.
+ * See https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-customevent.
+ */
+
+// flowlint unsafe-getters-setters:off
+
+import type {EventInit} from './Event';
+
+import Event from './Event';
+
+export type CustomEventInit = {
+  ...EventInit,
+  detail?: mixed,
+};
+
+export default class CustomEvent extends Event {
+  _detail: mixed;
+
+  constructor(type: string, options?: ?CustomEventInit) {
+    const {detail, ...eventOptions} = options ?? {};
+    super(type, eventOptions);
+
+    this._detail = detail;
+  }
+
+  get detail(): mixed {
+    return this._detail;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/Event.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/Event.js
index 55a927d26fb528..10ccd67061e441 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/Event.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/Event.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import {
   setStopPropagationFlag,
 } from './internals/EventInternals';
 
-type EventInit = {
+export type EventInit = {
   bubbles?: boolean,
   cancelable?: boolean,
   composed?: boolean,
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/__tests__/CustomEvent-itest.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/__tests__/CustomEvent-itest.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ac0eecf5e8e12d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/events/__tests__/CustomEvent-itest.js
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @flow strict-local
+ * @format
+ * @oncall react_native
+ * @fantom_flags enableAccessToHostTreeInFabric:true
+ */
+
+import '../../../../../../Libraries/Core/InitializeCore.js';
+
+import CustomEvent from '../CustomEvent';
+import Event from '../Event';
+
+describe('CustomEvent', () => {
+  it('extends Event', () => {
+    const event = new CustomEvent('foo', {
+      bubbles: true,
+      cancelable: true,
+      composed: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(event.type).toBe('foo');
+    expect(event.bubbles).toBe(true);
+    expect(event.cancelable).toBe(true);
+    expect(event.composed).toBe(true);
+    expect(event).toBeInstanceOf(Event);
+  });
+
+  it('allows passing a detail value', () => {
+    const detail = Symbol('detail');
+
+    const event = new CustomEvent('foo', {detail});
+
+    expect(event.detail).toBe(detail);
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT allow changing the detail value after construction', () => {
+    const detail = Symbol('detail');
+
+    const event = new CustomEvent('foo', {detail});
+
+    expect(() => {
+      'use strict';
+      // Use strict mode to throw an error instead of silently failing
+      // $FlowExpectedError[cannot-write]
+      event.detail = 'bar';
+    }).toThrow();
+  });
+});