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Woman caught on Coldplay kiss cam with her boss finally breaks silence - makes huge claim
Months after the now-infamous Coldplay kiss cam moment went viral, the woman at the center of the scandal is finally speaking out, and she's making one thing clear: it wasn’t an affair.
Kristin Cabot, 53, a former Chief People Officer at tech firm Astronomer, was caught cuddling up to then-CEO Andy Byron, 51, on a massive jumbotron during Coldplay’s July 16 concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
The moment instantly blew up online, especially after frontman Chris Martin called it out in real time.
“Either they’re having an affair, or they’re very shy,” he joked, as Cabot tried to hide her face and Byron muttered: “F****** hell, it’s me.”
The awkward moment happened at Coldplay's show. Credit: Robert Okine/Getty Images
The fallout that followed
In a new interview, Cabot says what the crowd saw was a “one-time, alcohol-fueled mistake” - not a relationship.
“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,” she told The New York Times. “And it's not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That's the price I chose to pay.”
She admitted to having a “crush” on her boss and said she was excited to introduce him to her friends, but claimed they had not even kissed before that night.
Despite drinking tequila cocktails, dancing, and sharing a kiss in the VIP balcony, she insisted that it was the first and only time.
Still, the backlash was swift and brutal. Cabot says she received more than 60 threats on her life, was branded an “adulterer” in public, and has faced constant online humiliation.
“I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up,” she said. “But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.”
No affair, no second chance
In a previous report, a source close to Cabot said the media got it all wrong as the former Chief People Officer was already in the process of divorcing her husband, Andrew, before attending the concert.
Ironically, he was also at the show that night - with a date of his own.
According to PEOPLE, they emphasized that while it was “inappropriate” for Cabot to hug her boss, whom she had an "excellent working relationship with," in public, there was no romantic involvement.
Cabot instantly knew how bad it looked. “I’m the head of HR and he’s the CEO. It’s, like, so cliché and so bad,” she recalled to the NYT.
She and Byron rushed to her Boston apartment and drafted an email to the company board, but it was too late; the footage had already gone viral on TikTok.
Amid the viral backlash, both resigned from their roles at Astronomer. The company issued a statement saying: “Our leaders are expected to set the standard… and recently, that standard was not met.”
Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, reportedly deleted her social media accounts and removed her surname from online profiles following the incident.
The scandal sparked a satirical response from the company. In a bizarre twist, they enlisted Gwyneth Paltrow for a tongue-in-cheek video campaign addressing the saga.
Behind the viral memes and headlines, Cabot - who has been focusing on her children and family - says the social media backlash was devastating.
“What I’ve seen these last months makes it harder for me to believe that it’s all about the men holding us back,” she said. “I think we are holding ourselves back tremendously by cutting each other down.”