“The deal was done. But what she revealed after… changed everything.”

What started as an awkward moment on a concert jumbotron has now exploded into a full-scale scandal—one that’s ripped through a billion-dollar company, shattered two powerful families, and ended the once-pristine career of Andy Byron.

The CEO of Astronomer is now out of a job, out of a marriage, and—according to several neighbors in Maine—out of public sympathy.

It all began at a Coldplay concert on July 16. Byron was caught on the stadium’s ‘KISS CAM’ appearing intimately close with Kristin Cabot—his firm’s head of HR, who is also married. When the camera zoomed in, the two visibly panicked, ducked, and tried to hide their faces. But it was too late.

The clip went viral. And Megan Kerrigan Byron—the woman who had shared a life and two sons with Andy—didn’t find out from a colleague. She saw the video online, like everyone else. And once she did, everything changed.

Megan has not spoken publicly. But her actions have been deafening. Within days, she removed her husband’s last name from all her profiles, reverted to “Kerrigan,” and wiped her Facebook clean of family photos—including a hiking trip and her son’s graduation.

She fled their $1.4 million home in Massachusetts and is now staying at the couple’s luxury $2.4 million property in Kennebunk, Maine. That house—reportedly part of a settlement triggered by the scandal—has seen a steady stream of relatives, including Megan’s sister Maura, coming and going over the weekend. Locals described the energy as “tense, protective, and private.”

According to sources close to the family, Megan’s team has already begun legal preparations. Meanwhile, Byron has not been seen since the incident.

Kristin Cabot, the woman at the center of the clip, is also married—to Andrew Cabot, the CEO of Privateer Rum, a liquor company with deep Bostonian roots. Property records list Kristin and Andrew as husband and wife as recently as February of this year. Photos from 2024 show Kristin wearing her wedding ring—one notably absent in the Coldplay footage.

Multiple public records now confirm that Kristin and Andrew had recently sold a multimillion-dollar property and purchased another New England estate.

Backlash was swift.

Some neighbors in Maine called Andy Byron “disgusting.” Others made jokes at a local fundraiser just blocks from the mansion. While auctioning off a Coldplay experience, the host quipped: “Just don’t end up on the kiss cam,” prompting laughter from the crowd.

But inside the house, the tone was anything but funny.

A voicemail allegedly recorded days earlier surfaced online and has been verified by two reporters.

“Let her take the house. It’s all she’ll get. I built the life, she just walked into it.”

“She can play victim all she wants. I’m not going down over a concert.”

That voicemail, once paired with the video, became the moment the internet turned completely. Hashtags exploded. Commenters began reposting photos of Megan with her sons, calling her “the one holding real dignity.”

Astronomer moved quickly. In a statement released Saturday, the company confirmed that Byron had officially resigned. Kristin Cabot, too, has been placed on leave pending internal review.

“Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board has accepted. We remain committed to the cultural values that define Astronomer,” the statement read.

Just a week earlier, Byron had appeared on NYSE TV celebrating a $93 million funding round.

Now, silence.

But behind the scenes, more began to unravel.

A former housekeeper who worked with the Byron family for over five years contacted a local reporter anonymously:

“The silence in that house didn’t start with the concert. It started months ago. Megan wasn’t the loud one—but she noticed everything.”

She described a tense spring, where Andy was often absent, distracted, and increasingly cold during family dinners.

“He would look at his phone and smile. But never at her.”

In a brief flashback from Megan’s friend, it was revealed that two months before the concert, she had already removed Andy from her emergency contact list at Bancroft School—where she serves as Associate Director.

And now, even their eldest son has reportedly edited his college application essay, removing all reference to his father.

According to a close source at the school, his new opening line reads:

“The man I used to look up to no longer lives in our house.”

The company fallout widened as well.

An internal Slack message from an Astronomer product manager—leaked to a tech blog—read:

“The moment I saw that video, I thought, ‘He just sank the ship he built.’”

Another email from an investor said:

“We backed vision, not vanity. This wasn’t just a mistake—it was a structural collapse.”

And finally, one more photo appeared online—posted from Megan’s now-reactivated Instagram.

It showed nothing but a closed mailbox, the number ‘42’ on it, and the caption:

“The house was never the problem. But it always knew what happened inside it.”

This article contains reconstructed sequences and character details based on publicly discussed events, reported timelines, and composite interviews. Certain elements have been editorialized for narrative impact.