Kristin Cabot is finally speaking out months after her viral Coldplay Kiss Cam moment cost her her job and sparked an internet firestorm.
In an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, December 18, the former Astronomer HR head reflected on the night she and then-CEO Andy Byron were caught in an intimate embrace during the band’s Boston concert in July.
Cabot, 53, told the newspaper that she debated whether to make the matter public, but ultimately felt compelled to explain what happened. She insisted that she and Byron did not have a sexual relationship and said that they had never kissed before that night.
“I made a bad decision and took some High Noons, danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,” she said, adding that “it’s not nothing.”
Cabot said she accepted the consequences, even if they were devastating. “This is the price I chose to pay,” she explained, stressing that she “gave up [her] career” following the incident. “I want my children to know that you can make mistakes, and you can definitely be wrong, but that you don’t need to be threatened with being killed for them.”
She told the Times she and Byron “clicked, stylistically” when she interviewed for her role in 2024, later bonding over the two “ongoing” separations. At the time she invited him as her partner to the Coldplay concert, she admitted she had a “crush”, even though it wasn’t meant to be a date.
High on tequila cocktails and dancing, the couple appeared on the jumbotron, prompting Chris Martin to joke, “Whoa, look at those two.” When Byron ducked away and Cabot hid his face, Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just really shy.” »
“I was so embarrassed and so horrified,” Cabot said. “I’m the head of HR and he’s the CEO. It’s so cliché and so bad.”
Both were placed on leave following a committee investigation. Byron resigned the next day, and Cabot followed shortly after.
