diff --git a/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample.tsx b/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5787f7075a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+import React, { Suspense, useReducer, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { Button, Text, View } from 'react-native';
+import Animated, {
+  FadeIn,
+  FadeOut,
+  LinearTransition,
+} from 'react-native-reanimated';
+
+// Minimal reproduction of a Fabric mounting crash caused by Reanimated's
+// legacy LayoutAnimationsProxy (EXC_BAD_ACCESS at 0x18 on RN 0.83 /
+// NSRangeException in -[RCTMountingManager performTransaction:] on RN 0.85+).
+//
+// Required ingredients:
+//  1. a Suspense boundary that re-suspends whenever `mode` changes
+//     (offscreen hide + fallback swap, not a normal unmount),
+//  2. Animated.FlatList with itemLayoutAnimation,
+//  3. list items with layout + entering + EXITING animations — exiting is
+//     essential: it makes the proxy withhold Remove/Delete mutations,
+//  4. a conditional subview swap with entering+exiting inside each item,
+//  5. mixed Insert/Remove/Update churn in one parent (stable keys whose text
+//     changes + keys that mount/unmount per mode).
+//
+// Tapping the button alternates mode switches and swap toggles every 200ms,
+// so each state change lands while exiting/layout animations from the
+// previous one are still in flight. Release builds crash within seconds.
+
+const SUSPEND_MS = 150;
+
+const cache = new Map<
+  string,
+  { status: 'pending' | 'done'; promise: Promise<void> }
+>();
+
+function useSuspendedData(key: string) {
+  let entry = cache.get(key);
+  if (!entry) {
+    const promise = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        const e = cache.get(key);
+        if (e) {
+          e.status = 'done';
+        }
+        resolve();
+      }, SUSPEND_MS);
+    });
+    entry = { status: 'pending', promise };
+    cache.set(key, entry);
+  }
+  if (entry.status === 'pending') {
+    throw entry.promise;
+  }
+}
+
+function buildItems(mode: number): string[] {
+  const variant = mode % 3;
+  // stable keys — survive mode switches
+  const items = Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, i) => `stable-${i}`);
+  // key spliced into the middle — shifts the indices of the stable items
+  items.splice(3, 0, `mid-${variant}`);
+  // varying tail — mounts/unmounts (Insert/Remove with exiting) per mode
+  for (let i = 0; i < 3 + variant * 4; i++) {
+    items.push(`temp-${variant}-${i}`);
+  }
+  return items;
+}
+
+function Item({ id, mode, swapped }: { id: string; mode: number; swapped: boolean }) {
+  // Two views per item: the item itself (withheld Remove/Delete via `exiting`)
+  // and a conditional subtree swap — every toggle fires an exiting animation
+  // on the outgoing view and an entering one on the incoming view. The Text
+  // includes `mode`, so stable items also get Paragraph updates every switch.
+  return (
+    <Animated.View
+      layout={LinearTransition.duration(250)}
+      entering={FadeIn.duration(200)}
+      exiting={FadeOut.duration(800)}>
+      {swapped ? (
+        <Animated.View
+          key="a"
+          entering={FadeIn.duration(200)}
+          exiting={FadeOut.duration(600)}>
+          <Text>{`${id} · A · mode ${mode}`}</Text>
+        </Animated.View>
+      ) : (
+        <Animated.View
+          key="b"
+          entering={FadeIn.duration(200)}
+          exiting={FadeOut.duration(600)}>
+          <Text>{`${id} · B · mode ${mode}`}</Text>
+        </Animated.View>
+      )}
+    </Animated.View>
+  );
+}
+
+function List({ mode, swapped }: { mode: number; swapped: boolean }) {
+  useSuspendedData(`page-${mode}`);
+  return (
+    <Animated.FlatList
+      data={buildItems(mode)}
+      keyExtractor={(id) => id}
+      itemLayoutAnimation={LinearTransition.duration(250)}
+      renderItem={({ item }) => <Item id={item} mode={mode} swapped={swapped} />}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+function Skeleton() {
+  return (
+    <Animated.View
+      entering={FadeIn.duration(150)}
+      exiting={FadeOut.duration(400)}>
+      <Text>Loading…</Text>
+    </Animated.View>
+  );
+}
+
+export default function SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample() {
+  const [mode, nextMode] = useReducer((m: number) => m + 1, 0);
+  const [swapped, setSwapped] = useState(false);
+  const started = useRef(false);
+
+  const start = () => {
+    if (started.current) {
+      return;
+    }
+    started.current = true;
+    let tick = 0;
+    // never cleared — the app crashes before cleanup matters
+    setInterval(() => {
+      tick += 1;
+      if (tick % 2 === 0) {
+        nextMode();
+      } else {
+        setSwapped((s) => !s);
+      }
+    }, 200);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <View style={{ flex: 1, paddingTop: 8 }}>
+      <Button title="Start stress (crashes in seconds)" onPress={start} />
+      <Suspense fallback={<Skeleton />}>
+        <List mode={mode} swapped={swapped} />
+      </Suspense>
+    </View>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/index.ts b/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/index.ts
index 509fd027766..ab1dc8fd6e3 100644
--- a/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/index.ts
+++ b/apps/common-app/src/apps/reanimated/examples/index.ts
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ const EmojiWaterfallExample: React.FC = () =>
   React.createElement(require('./EmojiWaterfallExample').default as React.FC);
 const EmptyExample: React.FC = () =>
   React.createElement(require('./EmptyExample').default as React.FC);
+const SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample: React.FC = () =>
+  React.createElement(
+    require('./SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample').default as React.FC
+  );
 const ExtrapolationExample: React.FC = () =>
   React.createElement(require('./ExtrapolationExample').default as React.FC);
 const FetchExample: React.FC = () =>
@@ -520,6 +524,12 @@ export const EXAMPLES: Record<string, Example> = {
     screen: AboutExample,
   },
 
+  SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample: {
+    icon: '💥',
+    title: 'Suspense + Layout Animation Crash',
+    screen: SuspenseLayoutAnimationCrashExample,
+  },
+
   // Empty example for test purposes
   EmptyExample: {
     icon: '👻',
diff --git a/apps/fabric-example/package.json b/apps/fabric-example/package.json
index 8635d67ccfe..3de8706ef78 100644
--- a/apps/fabric-example/package.json
+++ b/apps/fabric-example/package.json
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
       "IOS_CSS_CORE_ANIMATION": true,
       "USE_SYNCHRONIZABLE_FOR_MUTABLES": true,
       "USE_COMMIT_HOOK_ONLY_FOR_REACT_COMMITS": true,
-      "ENABLE_SHARED_ELEMENT_TRANSITIONS": true,
+      "ENABLE_SHARED_ELEMENT_TRANSITIONS": false,
       "FORCE_REACT_RENDER_FOR_SETTLED_ANIMATIONS": true,
       "USE_ANIMATION_BACKEND": false
     }
diff --git a/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.cpp b/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.cpp
index 9402e3e5ba4..9d2a29ff47e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ std::optional<MountingTransaction> LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy::pullTransaction
   std::vector<std::shared_ptr<MutationNode>> roots;
   std::unordered_map<Tag, Tag> movedViews;
 
+  // If React re-creates or re-inserts a tag whose exiting removal we are still
+  // withholding, it has contradicted that withheld Remove/Delete. Flush it now
+  // instead of letting it fire later against a stale hierarchy (which would
+  // unmount the wrong, still-live view and crash the mounting layer).
+  //
+  // This must run before addOngoingAnimations (which would otherwise emit an
+  // Update for a tag we are about to Delete this frame) and before
+  // parseRemoveMutations, so the rest of the pipeline sees clean bookkeeping.
+  reconcileContradictedRemovals(mutations, filteredMutations, surfaceId);
+
   addOngoingAnimations(surfaceId, filteredMutations);
 
 #ifdef ANDROID
@@ -69,6 +79,32 @@ std::optional<MountingTransaction> LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy::pullTransaction
   return MountingTransaction{surfaceId, transactionNumber, std::move(filteredMutations), telemetry};
 }
 
+void LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy::reconcileContradictedRemovals(
+    ShadowViewMutationList &mutations,
+    ShadowViewMutationList &filteredMutations,
+    SurfaceId surfaceId) const {
+  auto &[deadNodes] = surfaceContext_[surfaceId];
+  for (auto &mutation : mutations) {
+    if (mutation.type != ShadowViewMutation::Type::Create && mutation.type != ShadowViewMutation::Type::Insert) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    auto tag = mutation.newChildShadowView.tag;
+    auto it = nodeForTag_.find(tag);
+    // Only a MutationNode represents a withheld removal; a plain Node is just a
+    // live parent of some removed child and must be left untouched.
+    if (it == nodeForTag_.end() || !it->second->isMutationNode()) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    auto node = std::static_pointer_cast<MutationNode>(it->second);
+    // Flush the withheld Remove/Delete for this tag (and its withheld subtree)
+    // right now, mirroring the deadNodes cleanup in handleRemovals. This removes
+    // the stale view before React's Create/Insert re-registers the same tag.
+    endAnimationsRecursively(node, filteredMutations);
+    maybeDropAncestors(node->unflattenedParent, node, filteredMutations);
+    deadNodes.erase(node);
+  }
+}
+
 std::optional<SurfaceId> LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy::progressLayoutAnimation(int tag, const jsi::Object &newStyle) {
 #ifdef LAYOUT_ANIMATIONS_LOGS
   LOG(INFO) << "progress layout animation for tag " << tag << std::endl;
@@ -127,7 +163,13 @@ std::optional<SurfaceId> LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy::endLayoutAnimation(int ta
   }
 
   auto node = nodeForTag_[tag];
-  react_native_assert(node->isMutationNode() && "exiting tag must map to a MutationNode");
+  if (!node->isMutationNode()) {
+    // The node was replaced by a plain Node (e.g. by a reparenting move) after
+    // the exiting animation started, so there is no withheld removal to
+    // finalize. Casting it to MutationNode here would corrupt the heap, and the
+    // react_native_assert that used to guard this is compiled out in release.
+    return {};
+  }
   auto mutationNode = std::static_pointer_cast<MutationNode>(node);
   mutationNode->state = ExitingState_Legacy::DEAD;
   auto &[deadNodes] = surfaceContext_[surfaceId];
diff --git a/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.h b/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.h
index e9a5e9959e8..57cc134ebf0 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.h
+++ b/packages/react-native-reanimated/Common/cpp/reanimated/LayoutAnimations/LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy.h
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ struct LayoutAnimationsProxy_Legacy : public LayoutAnimationsProxyCommon,
   std::optional<SurfaceId> endLayoutAnimation(int tag, bool shouldRemove) override;
   void maybeCancelAnimation(const int tag) const;
 
+  void reconcileContradictedRemovals(
+      ShadowViewMutationList &mutations,
+      ShadowViewMutationList &filteredMutations,
+      SurfaceId surfaceId) const;
   void parseRemoveMutations(
       std::unordered_map<Tag, Tag> &movedViews,
       ShadowViewMutationList &mutations,