Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down.

Getting error message "Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project."

I have seen some other questions with this error message, but none with the particular case I'm running into. Any time I try to open up any saved Premiere Pro file, I am getting the above error message. The only way I can access my old Premiere files is to open up a new Premiere Pro file and then import my most recent project save into my project. Then I save the file and close out of it. When I try to open it up again, I get the same error message. I can't even get the file open. It immediately crashes and gives me that error message, and it's for multiple Premiere projects on my hard drive. 

I've also tried removing the premiere pro file from my hard drive to my desktop and I still get the error message.