WASHINGTON — The aide for Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) who died after setting herself on fire was not having an affair with the married congressman, her family said Tuesday.

“I don’t think it has any merit,” Nora Gonzales, the mother of Regina Santos-Aviles, told The Post.

The Daily Mail reported on Monday that Santos-Aviles had separated from her husband and was having an affair with Gonzales before her death at her Uvalde, Texas, home on Sept. 13.

Nora Gonzales said she believes the report was “completely false.” 3

Nora found her daughter badly burned after Santos-Aviles doused herself in gasoline before igniting in the backyard of her home, according to cops and surveillance footage.

Santos-Aviles begged her for water and was later rushed to a nearby hospital, where sh

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