Are the Coldplay Kiss cam couple finally together? Kristin Cabot reveals the truth

When the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert landed on two colleagues, an HR and CEO at that, on July 16, the moment lasted only seconds. What followed stretched for weeks. The clip raced across the internet, speculation hardened into certainty, and the fallout became relentless, especially for Kristin Cabot, whose private life was suddenly treated as public property.For Cabot, the repercussions were immediate and punishing. Her name trended globally. Her home address spread online. She received hundreds of calls a day and paparazzi camped outside her house as cars slowly circled her block. Online, she was called a sl*t, a homewrecker, a gold digger, a side piece. The noise didn’t stop, and neither did the assumptions.In a candid interview with The New York Times, Cabot addressed the question many had already answered for her: were she and her boss actually together? Did they cheat on their partners? Are they still in contact or a relationship?Cabot explained that what the public read as an affair grew out of proximity and vulnerability, not secrecy.

Both she and her boss, Byron, were navigating difficult periods in their personal lives. Cabot was already in the process of separating from her husband, Andrew Cabot. As colleagues at Astronomer, they worked closely, talked often, shared stress, and relied on each other emotionally. The bond deepened quickly, and feelings followed, but Cabot says she remained conscious of the professional boundary, aware that any real relationship would have required her to step away from reporting to him.

The night of the concert itself, she said, was not planned as a turning point. They attended with friends. Nothing happened beforehand. Their intimate hug(she accepts that they had kissed once that night) which was captured on the stadium screen marked the first time they crossed that line, and, briefly, appeared as a couple. Within hours, the internet took over and rewrote the story for them.The weeks that followed were brutal. Cabot described questioning her own worth, internalizing the idea that she somehow deserved the punishment.

The scale of the backlash affected every corner of her life, including her children, who had to be shielded from the chaos as best as possible. By late summer, some stability returned. Cabot formally filed for divorce, and Andrew Cabot confirmed that they had been separated at the time of the concert. Her children returned to school, where they were treated with kindness. Cabot began leaving the house again, playing tennis, slowly reclaiming pieces of normalcy.As for the question that sparked so much speculation: no, Cabot and Byron are not together now. They remained in contact through the summer, checking in about work and family, but by early September, they mutually agreed that continued communication would only make it harder for everyone to heal and move on. Since then, their contact has been minimal. The kiss cam moment may have frozen them in a single viral frame, but Cabot’s account makes one thing clear: the story the internet told was far simpler than the reality she lived.

And the truth, she says, is that one mistake, magnified beyond recognition, does not define an entire life.