diff --git a/cocos/2d/CCEventDispatcher.cpp b/cocos/2d/CCEventDispatcher.cpp
index c9cf4301e6..38ef104175 100644
--- a/cocos/2d/CCEventDispatcher.cpp
+++ b/cocos/2d/CCEventDispatcher.cpp
@@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ void EventDispatcher::removeEventListenersForListenerID(const EventListener::Lis
                 if (l->getSceneGraphPriority() != nullptr)
                 {
                     dissociateNodeAndEventListener(l->getSceneGraphPriority(), l);
+                    l->setSceneGraphPriority(nullptr);  // NULL out the node pointer so we don't have any dangling pointers to destroyed nodes.
                 }
                 
                 if (_inDispatch == 0)