diff --git a/Objects/cellobject.c b/Objects/cellobject.c
index 86bebb9..4e359f8 100644
--- a/Objects/cellobject.c
+++ b/Objects/cellobject.c
@@ -20,6 +20,37 @@
     return (PyObject *)op;
 }
 
+PyDoc_STRVAR(cell_new_doc,
+"cell([contents])\n"
+"--\n"
+"\n"
+"Create a new cell object.\n"
+"\n"
+"  contents\n"
+"    the contents of the cell. If not specified, the cell will be empty,\n"
+"    and \n further attempts to access its cell_contents attribute will\n"
+"    raise a ValueError.");
+
+
+static PyObject *
+cell_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
+{
+    PyObject *return_value = NULL;
+    PyObject *obj = NULL;
+
+    if (!_PyArg_NoKeywords("cell", kwargs)) {
+        goto exit;
+    }
+    /* min = 0: we allow the cell to be empty */
+    if (!PyArg_UnpackTuple(args, "cell", 0, 1, &obj)) {
+        goto exit;
+    }
+    return_value = PyCell_New(obj);
+
+exit:
+    return return_value;
+}
+
 PyObject *
 PyCell_Get(PyObject *op)
 {
@@ -146,7 +177,7 @@
     0,                                          /* tp_setattro */
     0,                                          /* tp_as_buffer */
     Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC,    /* tp_flags */
-    0,                                          /* tp_doc */
+    cell_new_doc,                               /* tp_doc */
     (traverseproc)cell_traverse,                /* tp_traverse */
     (inquiry)cell_clear,                        /* tp_clear */
     cell_richcompare,                           /* tp_richcompare */
@@ -156,4 +187,13 @@
     0,                                          /* tp_methods */
     0,                                          /* tp_members */
     cell_getsetlist,                            /* tp_getset */
+    0,                                          /* tp_base */
+    0,                                          /* tp_dict */
+    0,                                          /* tp_descr_get */
+    0,                                          /* tp_descr_set */
+    0,                                          /* tp_dictoffset */
+    0,                                          /* tp_init */
+    0,                                          /* tp_alloc */
+    (newfunc)cell_new,                          /* tp_new */
+    0,                                          /* tp_free */
 };