diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/shared/shadowNodes/react/renderer/components/rngesturehandler_codegen/RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode.cpp b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/shared/shadowNodes/react/renderer/components/rngesturehandler_codegen/RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode.cpp
index 92bb180e5a..5096a9b4fc 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/shared/shadowNodes/react/renderer/components/rngesturehandler_codegen/RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/shared/shadowNodes/react/renderer/components/rngesturehandler_codegen/RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 #include <react/renderer/graphics/Transform.h>
 
+#include <cstring>
 #include <limits>
 
 namespace facebook::react {
@@ -155,6 +156,15 @@ RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode::unflattenNode(
       std::static_pointer_cast<RNGestureHandlerDetectorShadowNode>(clonedNode);
 
   clonedNodeWithProtectedAccess->traits_.set(ShadowNodeTraits::FormsView);
+
+#ifdef ANDROID
+  // Android TextView is not a ViewGroup, so a Paragraph must not form a
+  // stacking context or its inline views get mounted into it and crash
+  if (std::strcmp(node->getComponentName(), "Paragraph") == 0) {
+    return clonedNode;
+  }
+#endif
+
   clonedNodeWithProtectedAccess->traits_.set(
       ShadowNodeTraits::FormsStackingContext);