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(New York, NY) — Kristin Cabot, the 53-year-old former HR executive at tech firm Astronomer, has finally broken her silence on the viral Coldplay “kiss cam” moment. The mom of two said the incident at a July concert in Boston ended her career. However, she’s blaming it on a “bad decision” after drinking a couple of High Noons, a popular, low-calorie vodka-based hard seltzer drink, and said it was a lapse in judgment. She also says she was not having an affair with her Astronomer boss, CEO Andy Byron.
She stressed that both she and Byron were separated from their spouses at the time. However, the footage quickly exploded online, drawing millions of views and a flood of commentary that Cabot says unfairly overshadowed decades of her professional achievement.
The fallout was quick and severe. Both she and Byron resigned from Astronomer in the wake of the incident and Cabot has since filed for divorce from her husband. She described the moment as erasing “everything I’d accomplished in my life and achieved in my career.” The viral nature of the clip turned her into an internet meme and, she says, left her feeling “unemployable,” despite emphasizing that the encounter was an isolated mistake.
Cabot added, “I’m not some celebrity, I’m just a mom from New Hampshire” and “Even if I did have an affair, it’s not anybody’s business.” Cabot hopes her story sheds light on the personal toll that a split-second moment can take when it goes viral
