diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/enriched/utils/EnrichedParser.java b/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/enriched/utils/EnrichedParser.java
index 82fe9114a..46e08f72b 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/enriched/utils/EnrichedParser.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/enriched/utils/EnrichedParser.java
@@ -412,7 +412,6 @@ public Spanned convert() {
   }
 
   private void handleStartTag(String tag, Attributes attributes) {
-    isEmptyTag = false;
     if (tag.equalsIgnoreCase("br")) {
       // We don't need to handle this. TagSoup will ensure that there's a </br> for each <br>
       // so we can safely emit the linebreaks when we handle the close tag.