Executive caught on Coldplay kiss cam opens up to Oprah, says her estranged husband was also at concert

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

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.”