diff --git a/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/hooks/useStoryEmitter.ts b/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/hooks/useStoryEmitter.ts
index 8f5672a0..6d69ce9b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/hooks/useStoryEmitter.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/hooks/useStoryEmitter.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useEffect } from 'react';
-import { getAddons } from '../utils/storybookImports';
+import { getAddons, SET_CURRENT_STORY } from '../utils/storybookImports';
 
 function useStoryEmitter(updateRenderedStoryId: (storyId: string) => void): (id: string) => void {
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ function useStoryEmitter(updateRenderedStoryId: (storyId: string) => void): (id:
 
     const initialize = async (): Promise<void> => {
       const _channel = await getAddons().ready();
-      _channel.on('setCurrentStory', handleStoryRendered);
+      _channel.on(SET_CURRENT_STORY, handleStoryRendered);
     };
 
     setTimeout(() => initialize(), 500);
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ function useStoryEmitter(updateRenderedStoryId: (storyId: string) => void): (id:
 
   return async (storyId: string) => {
     const _channel = await getAddons().ready();
-    _channel.emit('setCurrentStory', { storyId });
+    _channel.emit(SET_CURRENT_STORY, { storyId });
     // if we don't call it twice going back from preview to original mode doesn't work
-    _channel.emit('setCurrentStory', { storyId });
+    _channel.emit(SET_CURRENT_STORY, { storyId });
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/utils/storybookImports.ts b/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/utils/storybookImports.ts
index b1eac9c3..1f339672 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/utils/storybookImports.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-storybook/src/getStorybook/utils/storybookImports.ts
@@ -13,3 +13,9 @@ try {
 }
 
 export const getAddons = (): any => addonsV8 ?? addonsV7;
+
+// This was originally imported from:
+// - @storybook/core-events in Storybook 7
+// - @storybook/core/core-events in Storybook 8
+// We keep it hardcoded as some users didn't have dependency in their versions of the library.
+export const SET_CURRENT_STORY = 'setCurrentStory';