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\n\tKristin Cabot, whose liaison with her boss at a Coldplay concert<\/a> this summer went viral and cost both of them their jobs, has broken her silence in a New York Times profile, detailing how she\u2019s living in the aftermath of public shaming. \u201cI was so embarrassed and so horrified,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m the head of H.R. and he\u2019s the C.E.O. It\u2019s, like, so clich\u00e9 and so bad.\u201d But as she explained, the fallout was much worse after public shaming led to doxxing, which in turn led to 500 to 600 calls a day and what she estimated as 50 to 60 death threats.<\/p>\n \n\tCabot, 53, maintained in the article that she was not in a relationship with her boss, former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron<\/a>, before the concert, and that the first time they kissed was the one captured on Gillette Stadium\u2019s jumbotron. \u201cI made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That\u2019s the price I chose to pay. I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up. But you don\u2019t have to be threatened to be killed for them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe also shared her side of the story, explaining that she started at Astronomer in November 2024 and bonded with Byron over their shared separations from their spouses. Feeling a spark, she invited him to a Coldplay<\/a> concert with her friends. \u201cI was like: \u2018I got this. I can have a crush. I can handle it,\u201d she told the Times<\/em>. On the way there, she learned her husband, also an Andrew, would be in the audience. Nevertheless, she said, she went with the moment and pulled Byron\u2019s arms around her for a kiss right as the camera hit her.<\/p>\n \n\tAware that the camera was on them, when they instantly recoiled, Chris Martin<\/a> commented, \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair, or they\u2019re just very shy.\u201d Cabot told the Times <\/em>that she and Byron ran to the bar in shame. \u201cWe both just sat there with our heads in our hands, like, \u2018What just happened?’\u201d she recalled, adding that their first impulse was to tell Astronomer\u2019s board of directors what happened. After she received a TikTok at 4 a.m. showing her kiss, she drove to Boston the next day to see her husband and tell her kids what happened.<\/p>\n