In late July 2025, as social media users continued to discuss the viral moment former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron appeared with his arms around the company's HR executive Kristin Cabot on a "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert, a statement (archived) circulated supposedly written by Byron's wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron.
According to the statement, titled "Formal Statement from Megan Byron," Byron wrote:
It has come to my attention — and apparently to the attention of half the internet — that my husband, Andrew Byron, has made certain... choices. Public ones. Under stadium lights. During a Coldplay concert. A venue not typically associated wit-infidelity, but here we are.
Let me be perfectly clear: I am not issuing this statement in defense, nor in heartbreak. I am issuing it in power. In precision. In silk gloves and sharpened wit.
I will not be engaging in performative forgiveness, nor am I interested in the optics of "grace." What Andy has done is not just humiliating-it is banal. Common. A man of ambition brought down by his own astonishing lack of imagination.
I have retained counsel. I have reviewed holdings. I have re-allocated what was once "ours" into what is now, very cleanly, mine.
I am not spiraling. I am ascending. And while Andy may have quoted Coldplay in his statement, I will simply say, when the lights went out, I saw everything clearly.
To those who expect tears — I don't cry for elowns, I schedule. I document. I rebuild.
This is not revenge. It is refinement. And he will feel it in the silence that follows.
The claim spread across X (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived) and Bluesky (archived). Snopes readers also searched our site, asking if the statement was genuine and actually came from Byron.
We found no evidence that the statement came from Byron, who reportedly removed her husband's surname from her Facebook profile before deleting it in the days following the July 16 Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
We found no reputable sources reporting the alleged statement on July 18, the date Byron allegedly issued it (archived, archived, archived, archived). Additionally, the statement contained errors of fact and spelling that marred its credibility. Therefore, we rate this claim — that Byron wrote the statement — false.
Several factual errors in Byron's alleged statement cast doubt on the authenticity of the text. Byron allegedly issued the statement on July 18, two days after the Coldplay concert. However, Byron's statement referred to an alleged statement made by her husband Andy Byron. Astronomer, the company that Andy Byron led until his resignation (archived) on July 19, said (archived) on July 18 that he had "not put out any statement."
Additionally, the statement bore a "Manhattan, NY" dateline. According to the Mail Online, a tabloid news site from the U.K. that sent reporters to find Byron, she spent the "weekend" (July 18 was a Friday) at the family's home in Kennebunk, Maine. According to the Mail Online and other sources that reported on the story, the Byron family normally lives in Massachusetts. Therefore, there was no apparent reason for Byron to be in New York on July 18.
Aside from the above, the statement contained spelling and punctuation errors ("wit-infidelity," "elowns") that seemed unlikely if Byron had indeed, as claimed, sought legal counsel and issued the statement through lawyers who would have no doubt ensured a cleaner presentation.
Around the time the statement circulated, several false Facebook pages using pictures of Byron found in news reports popped up, spreading further incorrectly attributed statements. Two of these accounts — one (archived) that spread a since-debunked statement attributed to Byron and one that spread the statement (archived) featured in this article — were created on July 19, days after the Coldplay concert incident had already gone viral.
