Married Congressman finally confesses to affair with aide who later set herself on fire in shocking scandal first exposed by the Daily Mail

A married Texas congressman has finally admitted having an affair with a senior aide who later set herself on fire and burned to death, four months after the Daily Mail exposed the scandal. 

Tony Gonzales made the confession during an interview on Wednesday while also airing wild allegations that the aide’s husband was ‘cheating on her with her best friend’ and demanded $300,000 from him after her tragic death. 

The admission comes amid pressure from House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday to come clean as the House announced it is investigating Gonzales’s affair since it’s against House rules for members of Congress to sleep with anyone working for them.

‘I made a mistake,’ Gonzales told a conservative talk show host. 

‘I had a lapse in judgment and there was a lack of faith, and I take full responsibility for those actions.’

The three-time Congressman is under increasing pressure from members of his own party to take accountability a day after Gonzales was forced into a runoff in the Republican Primary to retain his seat in Congress. 

‘I had absolutely nothing to do with her tragic passing,’ Gonzalez said in the interview.

The congressman also referred to an alleged Uvalde police report about the aide’s tragic death.

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Gonzales did not deny the affair when Daily Mail asked him about the affair in October– just weeks after Aviles’ horrific death.

However, he lied in November, telling reporters that the rumors were not true and questioning Daily Mail’s reporting. 

Aviles, 35, poured gasoline over herself before becoming engulfed in flames at her home on September 13 in Uvalde, Texas – about two hours west of San Antonio.

The married mother-of-one, who was separated from her husband at the time of her death, had served as Gonzales’s regional district director in Uvalde since 2021.

Last week, Aviles’s husband, Adrian, released text messages between his wife and Gonzales from 2024.

In the messages, the Texas Republican pressed his employee for sexy pics.

Even though Aviles twice texted ‘This is going too far,’ he pushed on, asking about her favorite sexual positions including if she liked ‘an-l.’ 

Adrian told Daily Mail in his first interview that he felt Gonzales had abused his position of power over his wife to pressure her into a romantic relationship. 

At one point, she asked him if he was sober, as the inappropriate conversation was happening at nearly 1 am.

The relationship went on for at least a year before Gonzales’s entire office found out about it when Adrian discovered their entanglement.

Adrian messaged several Gonzales and several senior staffers letting them know he knew what was going on. 

Gonzales claims he welcomes the investigation into his affair.