Basically you need to find the root cause behind the addition of this new empty row in the first entry to eliminate it from the list, rather than deleting it from the list. In a case where it don't add the empty record into the list in that case still you end up removing the first entry which is not expected.

So in your activity you can check for the empty record in the first entry then you can remove it from the list if it is empty rather than removing it directly.