Kristin Cabot, the former HR executive at the center of the Coldplay kiss cam scandal, sat down with Oprah Winfrey in her first on-camera interview to share new details about the viral moment that caused a controversy in July 2025.
While attending a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts last summer, Cabot and a colleague, Andy Byron, then the CEO of the company Astronomer, were seen on a kiss camera embracing. When Cabot quickly covered her face and Byron ducked out of sight, Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin joked to the crowd that the duo must be “very shy” or “having an affair.”
After the incident, Byron was first to resign from the company, followed by Cabot, who also filed a petition for divorce from her husband, Andrew Cabot, in August 2025.
During her first and only on-camera interview, Cabot appeared on “The Oprah Podcast” and told Winfrey that she and her estranged husband “had decided to separate and were living apart and planning for a divorce” four to six weeks before the concert.
Cabot also explained that Byron told her that he and his wife were also living apart and planning to divorce, which he said had been “many years in the making.”
Cabot told Winfrey that her estranged husband was also in attendance at the Coldplay concert, a fact that she learned when her daughter texted as Cabot was walking into the event.
Cabot went on to explain how she reacted when she heard that her husband was also there.
“And in my mind, I thought, ‘Well, is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy?’” she said.
“Or you run into him,” Winfrey added.
“Yeah, if I run into him. 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,” she recalled. “But he knows how closely Andy and I worked together. He knows we (socialized), got lunches and got drinks. It was fine.”
“So he knew that there was a relationship there,” Winfrey said.
“Yes. He knows the nature of my work,” Cabot said.
When the kiss cam panned to Cabot and Byron, Cabot said she experienced “a moment of total horror.”
“My immediate thought was, ‘Oh, my God, my husband’s in the building.’ He was there with someone else and I knew that and that was great and fine. But he and I were in the midst of our separation, incredibly amicable. To this day, he’s been one of the biggest supporters of me through all of this. He’s an incredible man,” she said. “And the last thing I wanted to do was embarrass him. And that was my first thought when I saw myself in that in that moment.”
Cabot said that day was the first time she and Byron shared any physical affection with each other. She also said she didn’t hear Martin’s comments suggesting that she was having an affair. Instead, she was more focused on her estranged husband’s reaction.
“Andrew comes from an incredibly private family in the Boston area, and I just knew in my head like the public embarrassment is not something that would have gone over well,” she said.
