Woman caught on Coldplay 'kiss cam' with CEO opens up on scandal months after incident
Kristin Cabot resigned from her position in HR as a result of the viral moment
Kristin Cabot, who went viral last year during a Coldplay concert after she was caught on camera cozying up to her boss, has sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss the infamous viral moment.
Cabot, who has since resigned from her position as Chief People Officer of Astronomer, had been watching the British band with Andy Byron, the former CEO of New York-based company, at the Gillette Stadium in Boston last July.
The pair, who were having an intimate moment, appeared on the big screen in the arena, much to their embarrassment.
"Either they're having an affair or they're just really shy," Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said at the time.
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Months on, Cabot has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey podcast, and claimed in a preview clip how she and Byron did nothing wrong as they were both separated from their partners at the time.
"I was walking into the concert and my daughter messaged me and said ‘oh it’s so great that you and Andrew [her husband] are both at Coldplay’. So she let me know that my estranged husband was also at the concert," Cabot said.
She continued: "In my mind I thought well is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy? Like that crossed my mind. If I run into him. But then I was like I’m in Gilette Stadium, there’s 55 thousand people here, I’m probably not going to run into him.
"But it doesn’t matter ... that would’ve been better at the end of the day if I’d just run into him, but he knows how closely Andy and I work together. He knows we socially got lunches and got drinks. It was fine."
Cabot went on to say she had a 'very close relationship' with Cabot and that her estranged husband knew the nature of her work.
It comes after Cabot sat down with the New York Times in December to reflect on the scandal.
"I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss," she said. "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.
“I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up. But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.”
The former HR head honcho went on to say that she's met with Byron a couple of times since the incident, but the pair have decided it's for the best to keep contact at a minimal.
Topics: Coldplay, Oprah Winfrey, Viral
Callum Jones