She Vanished from View. He Vanished from Power.
Inside the Quiet Rebellion of Megan Kerrigan Byron — and the Scandal That Took Down a Billion-Dollar CEO.
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The Coldplay concert was supposed to be a night of music. Instead, it became the stage for a corporate implosion, a marital reckoning, and a viral moment that shattered multiple families.
Andy Byron, 50, the now-former CEO of $1B+ tech giant Astronomer, was seen on the kiss cam cozying up to his top HR exec, Kristin Cabot, at a Boston stadium packed with fans. When Coldplay frontman Chris Martin called them out — “They’re either having an affair or they’re very shy” — the two ducked in panic.
But for Megan Kerrigan Byron, watching from somewhere else, there was no confusion. Just confirmation.
The Name Disappeared First
Megan didn’t go to the press. She didn’t post a statement. Instead, she deleted the name “Byron” from all her social profiles. No comments. No quotes. Just a quiet exit from the identity she had carried for 12 years.
Photos of the family — hiking, celebrating graduations, smiling arm-in-arm — were wiped clean from Facebook. What once looked like the picture-perfect American life began to fade, one post at a time.
Then she vanished. Not emotionally. Physically.
Megan fled their $1.4 million Massachusetts home and relocated to the family’s $2.4 million mansion in Kennebunk, Maine, where she remains in seclusion with close family, including her sister Maura.
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Megan Byron, 50, (left) is holed up at the family’s $2.4million Maine mansion as crisis talks unfold after her CEO husband was caught on a Coldplay kiss cam kissing his top HR exec
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Megan and her husband Andy share two sons together and haven’t been seen together since the scandal broke. All the loving photos of their family on Facebook, including one of the family smiling on a hiking trip (pictured), have been deleted since she deactivated her account
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Neighbors Speak. But She Doesn’t.
In Kennebunk, the scandal isn’t just known. It’s infamous.
One neighbor told reporters, “Everyone’s seen it. But the family doesn’t want to talk.”
Others were less restrained.
“He’s disgusting,” one local snapped. “She deserves peace.”
But even here, privacy is pierced. At a fundraiser just blocks from Megan’s retreat, a $13,000 auction experience was introduced with a not-so-subtle jab: “Another guy who thinks he’s going to Coldplay — as long as you don’t get caught.”
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Several family members, including her older sister Maura (left), have rushed to Megan’s side since the news broke (Maura and Megan pictured alongside their mother Patti)
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Andy and his top HR executive Kristin Cabot, who is also married, were caught red-handed at the Coldplay concert in Boston, Massachusetts on July 16 and called out by a bewildered Chris Martin, the lead man of the band
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The CEO, the HR Chief, and the Ghost of Brahmin Boston
Kristin Cabot, 52, isn’t just any HR executive. She’s also married — or was — to Andrew Cabot, CEO of Privateer Rum and heir to one of Boston’s oldest and wealthiest families.
Records show the Cabots bought and sold multimillion-dollar homes together in New Hampshire and Massachusetts as recently as this year. In April, Kristin appeared with Andrew and his children at a birthday celebration, wedding ring still on her finger.
But that ring? Gone during the Coldplay moment.
A Collapse in Real Time
Since the footage went viral:
Both Byron and Cabot were placed on leave from Astronomer.
Byron resigned.
His NYSE appearance just a week earlier, celebrating a $93M investment round, now feels like a cruel prologue.
Astronomer tried to steady the ship, stating, “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability… that standard was not met.”
What the company didn’t say is what everyone else already knows: a billion-dollar brand can be undone by 15 seconds of intimacy, a kiss cam, and one woman choosing herself.
She Didn’t Slam the Door. She Redefined the Room.
Megan Kerrigan Byron’s silence is not absence. It’s action.
While Andy quoted Coldplay in his apology (“I will try to fix you”), she simply reverted to the name Kerrigan and began consulting legal counsel.
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Joyful family photos with Byron and their two sons on Facebook have been deleted
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The other half of the scandalous duo is Kristin Cabot, 52, wife of Andrew Cabot (center), CEO of Massachusetts-based Privateer Rum who shares two children with his first wife Maud
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Sources close to the family confirm divorce is now a possibility.
And in this unraveling of reputations, corporate loyalty, and legacy marriages, one woman has emerged not as a victim — but as a strategist.
The story may have started on a jumbotron.
But what comes next?
That’s Megan’s to tell. And the whole country is listening.
