A HR boss caught on Coldplay’s kisscam in a viral 16-second clip has spoken publicly for the first time.
Kristin Cabot, 53, a former senior exec at tech firm Astronomer, says the moment she was shown embracing her boss at a Coldplay concert in Boston “ruined” her life.
She recalled the moment Coldplay frontman Chris Martin focused the stadium camera on her and Andy Byron, then joked: “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
Cabot told The Times: “Everything just flashed before my eyes.”
The clip, filmed by another concertgoer and posted to TikTok, was viewed millions of times and sparked an online hunt to identify the pair.
Both were widely assumed to be cheating, but Cabot said that assumption was wrong.
She explained the embrace was the first time she and Byron had been physically affectionate and that both were amicably separated from their spouses.
“I could have been struck by lightning, I could have won the lottery, or this could have happened,” Cabot said.
“But I’m not some celebrity, I’m just a mom from New Hampshire.”
At the time, Cabot was Astronomer’s head of human resources and Byron was the company’s CEO.
She had joined the start-up in November after being headhunted for her experience at major advertising firms.
She described Byron as a supportive boss who ensured women “had a seat at the table”, adding: “It was the first company in the male-dominated professions I’d worked in where I felt my gender was not an issue.”
About a month before the concert, Cabot said, they told each other they had split from their partners.
Over time, she said that support turned into what she called “a big happy crush”.
On the night of the concert, Cabot believed she was anonymous among tens of thousands of fans.
“We were sitting in the back of the stadium … in the pitch black just feeling totally anonymous,” she said.
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