Woman caught in viral Coldplay kiss cam video with boss has cut communication with him

Following their viral kiss cam moment at a Coldplay concert last year, the couple caught in social media infamy is no longer on speaking terms. 

In a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey for The Oprah Podcast, HR executive Kristin Cabot shared she cut all communication with her former boss, tech CEO Andy Byron, in mid-fall last year.

Cabot and Byron were at a Coldplay concert in July when the camera panned to them while the band was playing Yellow. Caught in an embrace, Byron immediately ducked out of sight and Cabot covered her face with her hands. 

The video, viewed and shared millions of times, triggered a downward spiral for the two, who, at the time, worked at Astronomer, a tech start-up. Both left their roles. According to Cabot, she was also put under constant scrutiny, with paparazzi camping outside her home, and received intense criticism, harassment, and even death threats. 

Explaining the nature of their relationship, Cabot told Oprah that weeks prior to the concert, she and her husband of two years were already in the process of getting a divorce. She added that she and Byron first connected on a personal level after she learned that Byron was also going through a divorce with his wife. 

However, it turned out that, according to Cabot, he was not being upfront. 

"I ended communication with Andy in mid-fall. There was a big miss on honesty and integrity. He wasn't the person he represented himself to be to me. And lying is a non-negotiable for me," she said. 

"He missed the mark on being as honest as he could have been with me," Cabot added. 

When Oprah asked her to verify that Byron wasn't separated, after all, during the concert, Cabot hedged. 

"I wanna be really careful because the world spoke for me and on my behalf, and I don't wanna do that to someone else and their family. I don't feel really comfortable. But I will say a lot of what was represented to me was not true," she said. 

"So you believed when you were standing with him at the Coldplay concert that he was separated," Oprah said. 

 "Absolutely. Zero doubt," Cabot replied. 

While Cabot first broke her silence about the incident in December through an interview with The New York Times, Byron has remained silent. 

"...I was left holding the bag. Being the one that was attacked, and he's remained silent, to me that's not a quality that I would look for in a friend or partner or boss. So we have no relationship now," Cabot said. 

"The entire trajectory of this would have changed if he'd have just made a quick statement to say my wife and I were separated at the time of the concert. Just like my husband did," she added.

It hardly made a dent in people's reactions on social media, however. 

"It was great that [my husband] did that but I was still left with... 'Okay, so she was separated but he wasn't, so she was still a homewrecker."