diff --git a/litellm/llms/gemini/count_tokens/handler.py b/litellm/llms/gemini/count_tokens/handler.py
index 4d6c7fd886..fdb77452d4 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/gemini/count_tokens/handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/gemini/count_tokens/handler.py
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ class GoogleAIStudioTokenCounter:
 
         from google.genai.types import FunctionResponse
 
+        # Handle None or empty contents
+        if not contents:
+            return contents
+
         cleaned_contents = copy.deepcopy(contents)
 
         for content in cleaned_contents: