on_raw_reaction_remove() can't remove role no matter what

Question

For some reason I keep getting a permissions error (see at bottom). Whenever I try to remove the reaction, which will remove the associated role, the permissions error occurs. This is odd, because I tripple checked that my bot role is both admin and the highest in the role list. In my bot, on_raw_reaction_add() works perfectly fine so, I have permission to add a role but not remove it?

Additionally, in my on_message() block, I have other functions that removes roles, too. So, I don't really think there is a lack of permission unless I'm doing something behind the scenes that I don't know about? Here is my code:

@client.event
async def on_raw_reaction_remove(payload):
    react_msg = message_id
    guild = client.get_guild(guild_id)

    if int(payload.message_id) == react_msg:

        member = await client.guilds[0].fetch_member(payload.user_id)
        
        if str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f534":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Red")
        elif str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f535":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Blue")
        elif str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f7e2":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Green")
        elif str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f7e1":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Yellow")
        elif str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f7e0":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Orange")
        elif str(payload.emoji.name) == "\U0001f7e3":
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name = "Purple")

        await member.remove_roles(role)

Once removing my reaction, I get:

discord.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50001): Missing Access

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-28T04:19:13

This error usually occurs because your bot doesn't have the correct permission in your discord server.

on_raw_reaction_remove() can't remove role no matter what

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