HR exec at center of Coldplay kiss cam controversy defends very close CEO relationship in Oprah Winfrey interview

Kristin Cabot is pushing back against the narrative behind the viral “Coldplay Kiss Cam” moment that derailed her career.The former Astronomer HR executive claimed that her relationship with then-CEO Andy Byron was a byproduct of a high-intensity professional culture where sharing desks and social drinks were standard practice during an upcoming appearance on “The Oprah Podcast.”Despite the global speculation about an illicit affair, Cabot maintained that she was already separated from her husband at the time and that he was aware of her “very close” working relationship with Byron.Cabot explained that her daughter alerted her to the fact that her estranged husband was attending the same Coldplay concert she was at with Byron on that fateful night.“My daughter’s like, ‘This is so fun! Great!’ … and in my mind I thought, ‘Well, that’s… is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy? Like, if I run into him,'” she told Oprah.Cabot’s momentary worry didn’t linger for long.“But then I was like, I’m at Gillette Stadium, there’s 55,000 people here.

I’m probably not going to run into him.But it doesn’t matter – I mean, it would have been better at the end of the day if I had just run into him,” she explained.

“But, you know, he knows – he knows how closely Andy and I work together.He knows we socially got lunches and got drinks.

It was fine.”“He knows the nature of my work and the way the relationships – I’ve shared desks with the CEOs I’ve worked with,” Cabot emphasized.“Like, it’s just a very close [relationship], and so it didn’t matter.”During Coldplay’s performance on July 16, Byron appeared on the Kiss Cam with his arms wrapped around a woman, who was later identified as Cabot.

The two were shown during Martin’s “The Jumbotron Song,” where the singer improvises lyrics about the couples shown to the crowd.Cabot immediately covered her face and turned away from the camera, while a ...