diff --git a/charts/stable/nginx-proxy-manager/values.yaml b/charts/stable/nginx-proxy-manager/values.yaml
index 6ca704fd7dc..f16fbf29ec2 100644
--- a/charts/stable/nginx-proxy-manager/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/stable/nginx-proxy-manager/values.yaml
@@ -84,8 +84,4 @@ workload:
                 expandObjectName: false
                 name: '{{ printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name "mariadbcreds" }}'
                 key: plainhost
-            DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD:
-              secretKeyRef:
-                expandObjectName: false
-                name: '{{ printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name "mariadbcreds" }}'
-                key: mariadb-password
+            DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "{{ .Values.mariadb.password }}"