diff --git a/ui/views/view.cc b/ui/views/view.cc
index ab2fe0fbefc4c..6cf3300f20df1 100644
--- a/ui/views/view.cc
+++ b/ui/views/view.cc
@@ -3761,7 +3761,16 @@ bool View::UpdateParentLayers() {
 void View::OrphanLayers() {
   if (layer()) {
     if (ui::Layer* parent = layer()->parent()) {
+      // Layer::Remove() synchronously calls StopAnimatingProperty(BOUNDS),
+      // which may fire LayerAnimationObserver callbacks that destroy
+      // `parent` (see crbug.com/1088432, where Layer::Remove() grew an inner
+      // weak_this guard for the same hazard). Mirror that guard at the outer
+      // loop so a later iteration does not dereference a freed `parent`.
+      base::WeakPtr<ui::Layer> weak_parent = parent->AsWeakPtr();
       for (ui::Layer* layer : GetLayersInOrder()) {
+        if (!weak_parent) {
+          break;
+        }
         // TODO(http://b/319941708): Please remove the below crash keys once the
         // the crash is fixed. It seems one of the layers returned by
         // `GetLayersInOrder()` is not a sibling of this view's `layer()` (i.e.