The woman filmed embracing her boss on a stadium kiss cam at a Coldplay concert last summer has said she no longer has any relationship with him, describing the fallout as life-altering and deeply uneven.
In a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, Kristin Cabot said she cut ties with her former boss, Andy Byron, after concluding that he had not been truthful with her.
“He wasn’t the person he represented himself to be to me,” she said, adding that dishonesty was a “non-negotiable.”
Cabot, who served as head of human resources at data firm Astronomer, said she believed Byron had ended his marriage.
According to her, the moment captured on the big screen was the first time they had any intimate contact, insisted that communication between them ended in the autumn.
The brief clip, filmed during a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, showed the pair embracing on the jumbotron before hurriedly moving out of view when they realised they were on camera.
The video, posted on TikTok by user Grace Springer, spread rapidly online and prompted a quip from the band’s frontman Chris Martin during the show.
Byron has not commented publicly on the incident, but was later seen with his wife wearing wedding rings in the weeks that followed, before resigning from his role as chief executive of Astronomer.
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Speaking to Winfrey, Cabot said she wanted to be careful in how she characterised Byron’s actions, stressing the intensity of the public spotlight.
“The world spoke for me and on my behalf, and I don’t want to do that to somebody else and their family.
“I was left holding the bag… and his remaining silent is not a quality I would look for in a friend, a partner or a boss. So we have no relationship now,” she said.
In September 2025, her estranged husband, Andrew Cabot, chief executive of Privateer Rum, said their separation was private and amicable and had begun several weeks before the concert footage emerged.
Cabot admitted that the viral moment cost her her career and exposed her to sustained online abuse, prompting her to withdraw from public view to protect her two teenage children and deal with the consequences professionally and personally.
She said the scrutiny escalated into doxing and daily harassment, and that she chose to speak out so her children would understand that mistakes should not carry lifelong punishment.
Reflecting on the reaction, Cabot said the scrutiny had been disproportionate and largely focused on her.
“I own the poor decision I made in that moment. I’ve paid an unimaginable price for that,” she told Winfrey.