diff --git a/src/pymovements/gaze/gaze_dataframe.py b/src/pymovements/gaze/gaze_dataframe.py
index 88321e4ed..5df0f8835 100644
--- a/src/pymovements/gaze/gaze_dataframe.py
+++ b/src/pymovements/gaze/gaze_dataframe.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def __init__(
         if events is None:
             self.events = pm.EventDataFrame()
         else:
-            self.events = events.clone()
+            self.events = events.copy()
 
     def transform(
             self,