diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index 7d694e52c83a6c..1e079af1926162 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -573,7 +573,9 @@ protected synchronized void dropView(View view) {
       ViewGroupManager viewGroupManager = (ViewGroupManager) viewManager;
       for (int i = viewGroupManager.getChildCount(viewGroup) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
         View child = viewGroupManager.getChildAt(viewGroup, i);
-        if (mTagsToViews.get(child.getId()) != null) {
+        if (child == null) {
+            FLog.e(TAG, "Unable to drop null child view");
+        } else if (mTagsToViews.get(child.getId()) != null) {
           dropView(child);
         }
       }