COLDPLAY kisscam HR boss Kristin Cabot has slammed Gwyneth Paltrow as a “hypocrite”, accusing the actress of cashing in on the chaos with a glossy Astronomer ad.
Cabot, 53, said she was “appalled” when her former employer hired Chris Martin’s ex-wife to front a commercial after the clip that “ruined” her life exploded online.
She told The Times that Astronomer “poured fuel on the already raging fire” by bringing in Paltrow.
“I was such a fan of her company, which seemed to be about uplifting women,” she said.
“And then she did this. I thought, ‘How dare she after the beating she got for all the conscious uncoupling stuff.’ What a hypocrite.”
Cabot even ditched her Goop stash, throwing away everything she owned from Paltrow’s wellness brand.
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Paltrow, 52, was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for more than a decade.
The couple wed in 2003 and separated in 2014, famously announcing their split as a “conscious uncoupling”.
They share two children together, Apple and Moses, and have remained publicly amicable since their divorce.
Cabot’s comments come as she broke her silence since the 16-second kisscam clip from Coldplay’s Boston concert went viral in July.
The footage showed Cabot embracing Astronomer CEO Andy Byron as frontman Chris Martin joked to the crowd: “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
Cabot said the moment the stadium camera landed on them, “everything just flashed before my eyes.”
The clip, filmed by another concertgoer and posted to TikTok, racked up millions of views and triggered an online hunt to identify the pair.
Both were widely accused of cheating, but Cabot was quick to say the assumptions were wrong.
She explained the embrace was the first time she and Byron had been physically affectionate and that both were amicably separated from their partners.
At the time, Cabot was Astronomer’s head of HR and Byron was the company’s CEO.
Cabot believed she was anonymous among tens of thousands of fans. “We were sitting in the back of the stadium … in the pitch black just feeling totally anonymous,” she said.
She did not hear the warning that the jumbotron was about to swing to the crowd.
“So suddenly I’m just seeing us on screen.”
Her first thoughts were of her estranged husband, Andrew — who she later learned was also at the concert.
“My immediate reaction was, ‘Holy s***, Andrew’s here’,” she said. “Then a beat later my mind turns to, ‘Oh God, Andy’s my effing boss’.”
Cabot and Byron left quickly and agreed to alert Astronomer’s board, which later led to the company launching an internal probe.
Byron resigned within days and Cabot stepped down soon after.
Cabot said that without the online pile-on, she could have apologised and kept her job.
Instead, she retreated to an Airbnb, saying she was in “too dark a place” to parent her children, and has since filed for divorce from her husband.