US EditionKristin Cabot: HR Exec in Viral Coldplay Clip Speaks of Abuse, Threats and Trying to Find a New Job
Kristin Cabot describes how a viral kiss-cam moment at a Coldplay concert led to harassment, job loss, and family impact, with both executives resigning after a board inquiry.
- Kristin Cabot, an HR exec, was filmed hugging her boss Andy Byron at a Coldplay concert, leading to harassment and threats after the video went viral.
- She received up to 600 calls a day, 50-60 death threats, and was doxxed, with her private details posted online.
- Cabot says she 'took accountability' for her 'inappropriate' behavior but faced severe backlash, including from her own children who were embarrassed.
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For months she remained silent, while that video of a few seconds continued to bounce online among comments, hypotheses and speculations. Now Kristin Cabot, former head of Astronomer's human resources, speaks for the first time publicly about what happened on July 16th at the Coldplay concert in Boston, the episode that overwhelmed her together with the then CEO Andy Byron. "I made a bad decision" she told the New York Times. "And for that decis…
Kristin Cabot, the woman who appeared on the big screen in the arms of her boss, Andy Byron, during a Coldplay concert, has risen from the dead after suffering global humiliation. After the video of the striking moment went viral, she retreated. Now, she's sharing her story in an interview with The New York Times.
In online comments, she had been insulted as an adulteress who was only after her boss's money, said Kristin Cabot. For days, she hadn't left her room.
Filmed in the arms of her boss at a Coldplay concert in July, this 53-year-old director of human resources saw her life swing in a few hours. Death threats, stalking paparazzi, dismissal... Five months after the scandal, she delivers her version of the facts to the New York Times.
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