Coldplay “kiss cam” executive Kristin Cabot shifted blame to her former boss in a new interview — hinting he lied to her about his marriage status and claiming social media “profited” from her pain.
Cabot, 53, believed that philandering Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, 51, was in the process of separating from his wife when they were seen canoodling at the concert during the viral cheating scandal, she said on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast Tuesday.
“He wasn’t the person he represented himself to be, to me — and lying is a non-negotiable for me,” Cabot told Winfrey. “There was a big miss on honesty and integrity.”
Cabot, the firm’s former head of HR, was married and in the process of getting a divorce when the couple was caught scrambling to duck out of view in July.
She told Oprah she believed Byron was in a similar marital situation — hinting he had lied to her about plans to leave his wife.
She said she “ended communication” with him last fall.
When Winfrey pressed Cabot to be more specific about his alleged “lying,” Cabot demurred.
“I wanna be really careful, because the world spoke for me and on my behalf, and I don’t wanna do that to somebody else and their family,” she said.
It’s the first time Cabot has accused the former tech tycoon of lying, having never mentioned it during an interview with the New York Times in December.
In the interview with Winfrey, she also milked the moment for sympathy — claiming social media companies such as TikTok “feed off the pain” of viral moments like hers, which raked in more than a billion views.
“The more pain someone like me is in, the more money they are going to make. And it fuels it and feeds it. I think there is an accountability there that needs to be looked at.”
Byron has yet to comment on the “kiss cam” moment. After the concert, he was seen publicly with his wife wearing a wedding ring.
