ABC producer Dax Tehera choked to death while drunk when he and his wife left their children alone in a New York hotel room.

An ABC News producer who died after leaving his children at a hotel so he and his wife could go to a swanky downtown restaurant suffocated to death because he was drunk, officials said Wednesday.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York confirmed to The Post that Dax Tehera’s official cause of death was “asphyxia due to obstruction of the airway by a food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.”

Tehera, who was the executive producer of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, passed away suddenly. December 23 at 37.

ABC News president Kim Goodwin initially said that Tehera had died of a heart attack.

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His wife Veronica was arrested just hours after he passed out for leaving the couple’s young children alone in a hotel room at the Yale Club that evening. The widow and mother of two was charged with endangering children but insisted she was watching her children.

Denying the accusations, the mom said she took her husband to the hospital and asked her parents and a close friend to look after their 5-month-old and 2-year-old children while she watches them through the camera.

“The hotel did not allow my friend to enter and instead called the NYPD,” she said in a statement after her arrest.

But sources told The Post that the couple left their children at home to go out to dinner with friends at 230 Bobby Wang Park.

A staff member there said that Dax felt unwell shortly after eating, prompting the waiter to check on him.

“So, before anyone ate, right after the waiter brought in the orders, he asked, ‘Are you okay, sir?’,” a Post employee said.

The drunk producer then “got up and walked as if he were going to the men’s room, but instead turned right and went out the front door, with the waiter following him outside.”

“The waiter said he collapsed in the corner, right here, outside the restaurant,” the employee said. “It was terrible and terribly embarrassing that they left small, small children alone.”

Tehera joined ABC News in 2017 as a senior producer and moved to The Stephanopoulos Show in February 2020.

He previously worked for NBC News and graduated with a degree in history from Dartmouth College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.