diff --git a/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js b/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
index 23bd20af01..ed8e93932f 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ export function getInlineStyle(state, blockKey, offset) {
 const NEWLINE_REGEX = /\r\n?|\n/g;
 
 function splitTextIntoTextBlocks(text) {
+  if (text == null) {
+    return [];
+  }
   return text.split(NEWLINE_REGEX);
 }