A bombshell twist in the viral Coldplay kiss cam story could change everything…
It captivated millions and sparked a global conversation about workplace relationships, infidelity, and the power of social media to destroy lives in seconds.
Back in July, a seemingly innocent night at a Coldplay concert in Boston turned into an internet sensation when the stadium’s ‘kiss cam’ caught something unexpected.
HR executive Kristin Cabot and her boss Andy Byron, then-CEO of AI company Astronomer, were captured on the big screen in what appeared to be an intimate embrace.
The moment that followed became the stuff of legend – Cabot’s immediate panic as she realized they were being broadcast to thousands of concertgoers and millions more online, her frantic attempt to duck out of view, and Byron’s equally awkward reaction.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, clearly sensing the tension, didn’t help matters when he quipped to the crowd: “Oh, look at these two. Either they are having an affair or they’re just really shy.”
The clip spread like wildfire across social media platforms, with viewers around the world speculating about what they had witnessed.
The assumption was clear: here was a married woman caught red-handed in an affair with her CEO, exposed in the most public way imaginable.
The fallout was swift and brutal. Within days, both Cabot and Byron had resigned from their positions at Astronomer.
The company, perhaps trying to inject some levity into the situation, even hired Chris Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow for a satirical advertisement about the incident.
But for Cabot, the consequences were far more severe than a corporate PR stunt.
Reports indicate that Cabot received hundreds of death threats following the viral moment.
But as often happens with viral stories that seem too scandalous to be true, there was more to this tale than met the eye.
On August 13, just weeks after the concert, Cabot filed for divorce from her husband, Andrew.
The timing seemed to confirm everyone’s worst assumptions about what the kiss cam had revealed.
The narrative seemed complete: powerful CEO and married HR executive caught in a workplace affair, leading to resignations, public shaming, and the destruction of a family. Except it wasn’t the whole story.
In a twist reported by the Independent that could change everything about how this viral moment is understood, new details have emerged that paint a dramatically different picture of what actually happened that night in Boston.
According to sources close to the situation, Kristin and Andrew Cabot had been separated for several weeks before the Coldplay concert ever took place.
Their marriage was already over, their divorce proceedings already in motion. The kiss cam didn’t reveal an affair – it simply caught a separated woman at a concert with her boss.
But perhaps the most shocking revelation of all was that Andrew Cabot wasn’t sitting at home in Japan as initially reported, unaware that his wife was out with another man.
He was actually at the very same Coldplay concert, seated elsewhere in the venue with his own date, a woman who has since become his girlfriend.
