diff --git a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/LLMController.ts b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/LLMController.ts
index 7dcc51528..6be8d6fc9 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/LLMController.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/LLMController.ts
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ export class LLMController {
       );
     }
     this.onToken = () => {};
-    this.nativeModule.unload();
+    if (this.nativeModule) {
+      this.nativeModule.unload();
+    }
     this.isReadyCallback(false);
     this.isGeneratingCallback(false);
   }
@@ -245,10 +247,22 @@ export class LLMController {
   }
 
   public interrupt() {
+    if (!this.nativeModule) {
+      throw new RnExecutorchError(
+        RnExecutorchErrorCode.ModuleNotLoaded,
+        "Cannot interrupt a model that's not loaded."
+      );
+    }
     this.nativeModule.interrupt();
   }
 
   public getGeneratedTokenCount(): number {
+    if (!this.nativeModule) {
+      throw new RnExecutorchError(
+        RnExecutorchErrorCode.ModuleNotLoaded,
+        "Cannot get token count for a model that's not loaded."
+      );
+    }
     return this.nativeModule.getGeneratedTokenCount();
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/OCRController.ts b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/OCRController.ts
index 4cac5d891..57f1e3489 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/OCRController.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/OCRController.ts
@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ export class OCRController {
         'The model is currently generating. Please wait until previous model run is complete.'
       );
     }
-    this.nativeModule.unload();
+    if (this.nativeModule) {
+      this.nativeModule.unload();
+    }
     this.isReadyCallback(false);
     this.isGeneratingCallback(false);
   }
diff --git a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/VerticalOCRController.ts b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/VerticalOCRController.ts
index 73ea54429..eaf4b0849 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/VerticalOCRController.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/controllers/VerticalOCRController.ts
@@ -106,7 +106,9 @@ export class VerticalOCRController {
         'The model is currently generating. Please wait until previous model run is complete.'
       );
     }
-    this.ocrNativeModule.unload();
+    if (this.ocrNativeModule) {
+      this.ocrNativeModule.unload();
+    }
     this.isReadyCallback(false);
     this.isGeneratingCallback(false);
   }
diff --git a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/hooks/natural_language_processing/useLLM.ts b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/hooks/natural_language_processing/useLLM.ts
index 23882e65c..852441556 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-executorch/src/hooks/natural_language_processing/useLLM.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-executorch/src/hooks/natural_language_processing/useLLM.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ export const useLLM = ({
     })();
 
     return () => {
-      controllerInstance.delete();
+      if (controllerInstance.isReady) {
+        controllerInstance.delete();
+      }
     };
   }, [
     controllerInstance,