The woman who was caught canoodling with her boss on the “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert in July is speaking out for the first time since the viral incident.
In interviews with the New York Times and the Times of London published on Thursday, Kristin Cabot, former head of human resources at tech startup Astronomer, said she was harassed for weeks after she was seen on the jumbotron with Andy Byron, the company’s chief executive at the time, during the July 16 show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., outside of Boston.
Coldplay’s Chris Martin called out the pair as they tried to hide themselves when they realized they were being broadcast on the big screen.
“Oh, look at these two,” Martin said. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
A 16-second fan-shot video of the intimate moment exploded on TikTok, quickly racking up more than 100 million views. Within days, Astronomer’s board of directors launched a formal investigation and enlisted a marketing company ( and Gwyneth Paltrow ) for damage control, and Cabot and Byron resigned.
“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss. And it’s not nothing,” Cabot told the New York Times at her home in New Hampshire. “I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay.”
‘A big happy crush’
Cabot, who was separated from her husband at the time, said Byron had told her that he was also going through a separation. Byron has not spoken publicly about the encounter.
Cabot told the Times of London that she had a “big happy crush” on her boss. But she was not in a sexual relationship with him at the time of the Coldplay concert, she told the New York Times, and before that night, they had never even kissed.
She said she was given VIP tickets to the concert and invited Byron to join her. On the way to the show, Cabot said she received a text informing her that her soon-to-be ex-husband, Andrew, was attending the concert too.
The viral video
