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Executive Caught on Coldplay Kiss Cam With Married Boss Finally Responds to Scandal

The HR executive who was caught with her married boss on a ‘Kiss Cam’ at a Coldplay concert is finally speaking out, five months after the infamous controversy.

53-year-old Kristin Cabot, who resigned from her job amid the scandal, essentially blamed her bad decisions on alcohol.

In a recent interview, she framed the incident as a one-time mistake that cost her everything.

Here’s what she had to say:

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NEW: HR executive who was caught on Coldplay kiss cam with her married boss speaks out for the first time

Kristin Cabot, 53, and ex-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron were caught during a Boston concert on July 16

Cabot said, “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 admitted she had a “crush” on Byron and was excited to introduce him to her friends

“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 k*lled for them.”

Byron resigned as CEO, and Cabot resigned shortly after

Cabot filed for divorce on August 13. Her husband confirmed they had plans to end their marriage prior to the concert

Byron and his wife Megan remain married

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Kristin Cabot was in the process of separating from her husband when she went out with her married boss, Andy Byron, to the Coldplay concert.

They are now divorced, though Byron remains married to his wife, Megan.

Cabot shared her full side of the story exclusively with The New York Times:

The two of us started the day in the kitchen. Cabot, her hair twisted up in a bun, was nervous, referring to bullet points as she unspooled her tale. But by evening, she was tucked into the couch, her large Bernedoodle, Burt Reynolds, as much in her lap as he could manage to be. She was not in a sexual relationship with her boss, she said. Before that night, they had never even kissed.

“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss. 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,” she said. “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.”

Raised in Maine in a family of brothers, Cabot was always super competitive: She will “go through a brick wall to get something done,” she said. She came to human resources through advertising and sales and always presented herself as “hyper-professional,” said her friend Alyson Welch, who worked with her at the tech company neo4j.

When, in the summer of 2024, Cabot interviewed with Andy Byron, at the time Astronomer’s chief executive, she found they “clicked, stylistically.” She started as Astronomer’s chief people officer in November 2024. In the fast-growth, start-up culture, the company’s staff was expanding and Cabot and Byron spoke every day, sometimes three times a day.

In spring 2025, while grabbing a sandwich near Astronomer’s New York office, Cabot made reference to her marriage “in a tone,” as she remembers it, and Byron asked what was up. She was going through a separation, she said. It was stressful and she worried about her kids.

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“I’m going through the same thing,” she recalled him saying. Reached by phone, Byron declined to be interviewed for this article.

For Cabot, the shared acknowledgment “sort of strengthened our connection,” she said, and a close working relationship grew even closer. At work, they shared confidences and made each other laugh, and for Cabot “big feelings” grew fast. She began to allow herself to imagine the romantic possibilities, though she knew she couldn’t keep reporting to Byron if the relationship progressed. She loved her job, and with two kids and a large, extended family of stepparents and siblings, she was incredibly busy. “I didn’t really get too carried away because he’s my boss,” she said.

Cabot’s separation from her husband was still new when she agreed to go with friends to see Coldplay. She liked the band well enough, but what really appealed was being out, with friends, on a summer Wednesday. “I hadn’t been out in ages,” she told me. She asked Byron to be her plus one.

Before the concert, Cabot and Byron met up with a small group of Cabot’s close friends at the Stockyard, an old-school steak joint. “I wanted to put a cute outfit on and go out and dance and laugh and have a great night,” she said. “And that’s how it was tracking.” The vibe of the evening was open and giddy, agreed two attendees who asked to be anonymous because of what they saw happen to their friend.

Was any part of her concerned about this outing from an H.R. perspective? “Some inside part of my brain might have been jumping up and down and waving its arms, saying, ‘Don’t do this,’” Cabot replied. But, generally, “No.” She was “pumped” to introduce Byron to her friends. “I was like: ‘I got this. I can have a crush. I can handle it.’” On the ride to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Cabot learned, by text, that her soon-to-be ex-husband was attending the concert, too. “It threw me,” she conceded. But she and Byron “were not an item.”

The seats were on a V.I.P. balcony offering a sweeping view of the stage. Cabot remembers that the setting felt dark and private. She and Byron each had a couple of tequila cocktails, and as the concert went on they began to look like a couple. She made a point of saying that night was the first and only time they kissed. Byron was dancing behind Cabot when she took his hands and wrapped his arms around her.

When Cabot saw her own image, and his, on the Jumbotron, it was like “someone flipped a switch,” she said. “I’ll never be able to explain it in any articulate or intelligent way,” she said. What an instant before felt like “joy, joy, joy” turned to terror. Cabot’s hands flew to her face, and she whirled out of Byron’s arms. Byron ducked.

At that moment, she had two thoughts. First: Andrew Cabot was somewhere in the dark stadium and she did not want to humiliate him.

And: “Andy’s my boss.”

“I was so embarrassed and so horrified,” she said. “I’m the head of H.R. and he’s the C.E.O. It’s, like, so cliché and so bad.” Cabot and Byron fled back to the bar. “We both just sat there with our heads in our hands, like, ‘What just happened?’” Even before leaving the stadium, they began to discuss how to manage their public transgression. “And the initial conversation was, ‘We have to tell the board.’”

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t know why this lady felt the need to speak out now — especially in the form of an entire spread in the NYT.

Take a look at this headline and photos from the NYT piece:

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Female privilege at its finest. Former Astronomer HR exec Kristin Cabot gets an entire lifestyle spread in the NYT where she is rebranded as the victim. She’s the one you should feel sorry for. Not the spouses who were cheated on. Not the Astronomer employees who were deceived. Andy Byron was shamed just as much as she was — and rightfully so — but he doesn’t get a feature in the NYT. They just want to make Kristin out to be the wounded bird. What a bunch of feminist-lite PR fluff. Nobody is interested in her “side of the story.” The only one I’d like to hear from are the spouses.

A bit tasteless, considering she was cheating with a married man, no?

And blaming it all on alcohol?

Come on…

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