By Zoe Papadakis | Tuesday, 17 March 2026 01:26 PM EDT
Kristin Cabot, a former human resources executive involved in the viral Coldplay “kiss cam” incident in July, shared new details about that night and its aftermath in her first on-camera interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Speaking on the podcast, Cabot revealed she and her estranged husband had already separated weeks earlier. She stated they “had decided to separate and were living apart and planning for a divorce” four to six weeks before the event.
According to Cabot, Andy Byron, then CEO of Astronomer and her colleague, had also mentioned he was in the process of divorcing his wife, describing it as “many years in the making.”
The incident occurred at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, where Cabot and Byron appeared on a kiss cam while embracing. Their reaction — Cabot covering her face and Byron ducking — prompted Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin to tell the crowd they might be “very shy” or “having an affair.”
Cabot said she did not hear that remark at the time. Her focus, she explained, was on the presence of her estranged husband at the same concert.
She learned he was there when her daughter sent her a message as she entered the venue.
“And in my mind, I thought, ‘Well, is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy?'” Cabot said. “But then I was like, I’m in Gillette Stadium. There’s 55,000 people here. I’m probably not going to run into him.”
Cabot stated that her husband was aware of her working relationship with Byron. “He knows how closely Andy and I worked together. He knows we (socialized), got lunches and got drinks. It was fine,” she said.
When asked if he knew about their professional relationship, Cabot confirmed: “Yes. He knows the nature of my work.”
When the camera focused on them, Cabot described experiencing “a moment of total horror.”
“My immediate thought was, ‘Oh, my God, my husband’s in the building,'” she said. “And the last thing I wanted to do was embarrass him. That was my first thought when I saw myself in that moment.”
Cabot also noted that the concert marked the first time she and Byron had shown any physical affection.
The fallout from the incident extended beyond the event. Byron resigned from Astronomer shortly after, and Cabot later stepped down from her position. She filed for divorce from her husband in August.
In a December statement, Cabot admitted: “I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss.” She added, “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.”
Cabot also reported receiving death threats following the incident, stating her children “were afraid that I was going to die and they were going to die.”
She said the fallout has taken a personal toll, leaving her “embarrassed and so horrified,” shunned by friends and colleagues, and living with the effects of the controversy “every day.”
Zoe Papadakis is a journalist with two decades of experience in media and entertainment.
