The Coldplay kiss cam scandal that broke the internet earlier this year just got its final (and messiest) update for 2025.

Kristin Cabot - the HR executive who was caught cosying up with her married CEO boss during a Coldplay concert - has finally broken her silence, calling the moment a “bad decision” fuelled by “a couple of High Noons”… and one that cost her everything.

In interviews with The New York Times and The Times of London, Cabot says the now-infamous 16 seconds she appeared on the jumbotron didn’t just turn her into a meme - it made her “unemployable”.

“I made a bad decision,” she said, admitting she had a “big happy crush” on then-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron. “And it’s not nothing. I took accountability, and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay.”

ICYMI - Cabot and Andy Byron, former CEO of AI company Astronomer, were exposed at a Coldplay concert when the kiss cam landed on them, snuggling up. But it wasn’t the largest of shocks because Chris Martin himself had jokingly warned the crowd moments earlier that people were about to be put on the big screen. 

“I didn’t hear the announcement that the jumbotron was coming, so suddenly I’m just seeing us on screen,” Cabot claims.

“We were just dancing, I’d had a few High Noons. Andy was standing behind me, and we were dancing, and I grabbed him.”

“We were sitting in the back of the stadium at the opposite end from the stage in the pitch black, just feeling totally anonymous in an arena of 50, 60,000 people.”

What followed was a string of viral clips, internet sleuthing, and a huge HR nightmare unfolding in real time.

“Even if I did have an affair, it’s not anybody’s business,” she said. “I’m not some celebrity, I’m just a mom from New Hampshire.”

Cabot says she and Byron were both separated from their spouses at the time, and that the concert wasn’t a work event - but none of that mattered once the footage hit the internet.

“I became a meme,” she said. “I was the most maligned HR manager in HR history.”

She also noted the pile-on that followed, saying she copped most of the heat.

I think as a woman, as women always do, I took the bulk of the abuse. People would say things like I was a ‘gold-digger’ or I ‘slept my way to the top,’ which just couldn’t be further from reality.

“The amount I sacrificed to get where I did in my career, the amount of hands I’ve had to take off my ass over the years, comments I’ve had to swat away from men,” she continued. 

She added that years of hard-earned career credibility vanished overnight.

“People erased everything I’d accomplished in my life and achieved in my career. This can’t be the final word.”

Since then, Cabot has filed for divorce, left her role, and cut contact with Byron after briefly exchanging crisis-management advice (a sentence that somehow feels very on-brand for this whole saga).

From a few High Noons to headline memes, this concert will live forever in internet chaos history.