Lightroom crashes every time I select the "remove" tool

This is the second time I've encountered this issue and not been able to find anyone with a fix. The first time I had this problem, I fixed it by deleting my entire lightroom library and re-uploading everything. For obvious reasons, I don't want to have to do that regularly.

Every time I'm editing a photo and click on the "remove" tool, lightroom crashes. I've cleared the cache, I've updated by app, I've updated my graphics drivers, I've updated my computer, I've restarted my computer, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Lightroom, and nothing changes. Without fail, the second I click on the remove tool, before I've even tried using it, the app freezes completely.

This isn't an ongoing permanent issue. It didn't happen when I first got Lightroom, and then it just randomly started happening one day. I tried to fix it for days and nothing worked, so I deleted everything, reuploaded, and it worked again. Now, it's back again. I don't want to go the nuclear route this time.

Using version 8.0 on Windows 10 Pro.