Five months after appearing on a giant screen at a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts, USA, hugging her boss, Kristin Cabot decided to share her version of what happened that night and the difficult times she has been through since then. In an interview with The New York Times, says she was humiliated on social media, after which she became known as coldplaygate. She was called a “slut, home wrecker, gold digger, lover.”
According to Kristin Cabot, there was no romantic relationship between her and Andy Byron, then CEO of the startup Astronomer and, in that capacity, his boss. The two were going through difficult times in their marriage. Kristin Cabot, 53, was separating from her husband, as was Byron from his wife. There was a rapprochement between the two, one could even say flirtbut denies that he had ever had any intimate contact.
The Coldplay concert was an opportunity for Kristin Cabot unwind from the tension I was experiencing with the divorce process. And she invited Andy Byron to accompany her. How do you tell the The New York Timesthe two drank a few glasses of tequila during the show and became closer. They looked like a couple. It was that night that they kissed for the first and last time, he says.
Andy Byron was dancing behind Kristin Cabot when she took his hands and hugged him, he says. Then the image appeared on the giant screen and it was as if “someone had flipped a switch”. A joyful and fun night turned into terror. Kristin Cabot put her hands over her face and freed herself from Byron’s arms, who automatically lowered himself.