Kristin Cabot Says Coldplay Frontman Chris Martin Never Reached Out After Kiss Cam Incident

Kristin Cabot, the corporate executive who went viral after a Coldplay “kiss cam” moment, says she is now done with the band and claims frontman Chris Martin never reached out to her after the incident.

“Kristin Cabot, who stars in one of the year’s viral videos, spoke to the press for the first time since July, when she was seen with Astronomer’s CEO, Andy Byron, during a Coldplay show”

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Cabot told TMZ she has no interest in attending another Coldplay concert and said she would have appreciated contact from the singer following the episode that made her an internet sensation.

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When asked by reporter Colin Drummond whether she would have welcomed a check-in, Cabot replied, “Would have been great,” and then added, “Nope. Never did!”

She also made it clear she is finished with the band, saying, “No, I’m all set,” and later reiterating, “No, I’m all set.”

The moment that propelled her into public view involved Cabot being seen last year at a Coldplay concert in what appeared to be an embrace with her boss, Andy Byron, then chief executive of tech company Astronomer.

The video captured the pair on the stadium kiss cam, and they quickly separated and hid their faces when they realized they were on screen, which helped drive the clip’s spread online.

Cabot later pushed back on the narrative around the incident, telling Oprah that both she and Byron were separated from their spouses at the time and that her husband had been present at the concert.

“That would have been better, at the end of the day, if I had just run into him,” Cabot said, adding that “For me and my family, what happened was not okay,” and that she felt “by remaining silent, it was somehow accepting what had happened.”

Multiple outlets describe the kiss cam incident as occurring during a Coldplay performance in Massachusetts, with Cabot and Astronomer CEO Andy Byron appearing on the venue’s big screen and then quickly trying to avoid the camera.

The Express Tribune reports that Cabot, identified as the former chief people officer of Astronomer, was filmed during a Coldplay performance in Massachusetts on July 15, 2025, where she was seen in an intimate moment with then-CEO Andy Byron.

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The Mirror US en Español adds that the concert was called Viva La Vida and held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin directed attention to a couple in the crowd.

In that account, when the pair appeared on the big screen, they acted as if they had been caught red-handed, covering their faces and stepping out of frame, and Martin joked that the couple was “having an affair or simply were very shy.”

L’essentiel similarly describes the viral moment as involving Andy Byron being filmed embracing a collaborator during a Coldplay concert, and it says a new video surfaced showing the couple kissing or embracing while Chris Martin sang “Yellow.”

L’essentiel also notes that the scene was filmed by a spectator behind Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot, and it says the couple had not yet made a public statement at the time of that report.

WION places the controversy in July 2025 and says the kiss cam segment captured Cabot and Byron on the big screen, with the two locked in a back hug and ducked immediately on realizing they were on screen.

WION further says Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy.”

Astronomer’s response to the kiss cam controversy included internal action by the company’s leadership and a formal investigation by its board, according to L’essentiel.

“Kristin Cabot, the former human resources executive who became a viral sensation after being photographed sharing an intimate moment with her boss on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, has finally broken her silence about the incident”

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L’essentiel says Astronomer, “propulsée sous les projecteurs cette semaine,” announced that its CEO Andy Byron was placed on “congé provisoire” pending an investigation, and that Pete DeJoy, cofounder and director product, would assume interim leadership.

In the same report, Astronomer is described as having published an initial statement on LinkedIn earlier in the day, saying, «Nos dirigeants doivent incarner un haut niveau de conduite et de responsabilité».

L’essentiel also states that the company indicated that a formal internal investigation had been launched by the board of directors, and that new information would be communicated “prochainement.”

The Times of India reports that Cabot’s former boss Andy Byron “has stayed out of public view and has not commented since the viral moment,” reinforcing that Byron did not publicly respond in the period described.

WION adds that “Eventually, both stepped down from their roles at Astronomer(the company they were a part of) following the incident.”

The Express Tribune similarly says that following the viral moment, both Cabot and Byron stepped down from their roles at Astronomer, with Byron resigning as chief executive.

The Daily Beast also frames the fallout as Cabot telling TMZ that she is done with Coldplay after Martin didn’t reach out, while also noting that Byron’s public silence continued, saying her former boss “has stayed far out of the public eye, not offering public comment since the event.”

While Cabot’s central claim across multiple outlets is that Chris Martin never reached out, the sources also show how other details around the kiss cam moment were contested and reframed.

The Times of India says Cabot “has since pushed back on that narrative,” and in an interview with Oprah she suggested the situation had been misinterpreted, saying both she and Byron were separated from their spouses at the time and that her husband had been present at the concert.

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The Daily Beast similarly reports that in an interview with Oprah this March, Cabot said both she and Byron were separated from their spouses at the time and that her husband was actually in the stadium for the concert as well, quoting her: “That would have been better, at the end of the day, if I had just run into him.”

In contrast, OutKick’s framing is more hostile, quoting a line that treats Cabot’s situation as a kind of moral failure and presenting her as “caught red-handed” in the arms of a man who was “very much not her husband.”

OutKick also includes a quote attributed to Cabot—“Oh, no! The lead singer of a famous rock band didn't reach out to me after I was caught in the loving embrace of another man in a luxury suite at one of their concerts! What an A-hole!”—which is not present in the other outlets’ accounts.

L’essentiel adds another layer of dispute by describing a “mysterious woman” seen next to the couple in the viral video, saying she was identified by mistake on social media as Alyssa Stoddard, an employee of Astronomer, and then quoting Astronomer’s denial: «Alyssa n’était pas présente. Aucun autre employé n’est visible dans la vidéo».

The Independent en Español reports that a TikTok video about the incident had “more than 100 million views in a matter of days,” and says Cabot told The New York Times that, in September, she and Byron agreed that “talking to each other would make moving on and healing too difficult for everyone.”

It also states that Cabot and Byron shared their first and only kiss at the concert, and that they quickly pulled apart when they realized they were on the kiss cam.

Beyond the question of whether Chris Martin reached out, Cabot’s accounts emphasize the personal and public consequences that followed the kiss cam clip and the way she has tried to manage the fallout.

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The Times of India says Cabot described the impact on her personal life in an Oprah interview, saying “For me and my family, what happened was not okay,” and that she felt “by remaining silent, it was somehow accepting what had happened.”

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It also says she appeared in Washington DC at the PRWeek Crisis Comms Conference, delivering a talk titled, “Kristin Cabot: Taking Back The Narrative.”

The Daily Beast likewise says she was in Washington D.C. Thursday at PRWeek Crisis Comms Conference, delivering that talk, and it quotes her response to TMZ about Martin’s outreach: “Would have been great,” and “No, I’m all set.”

The Independent en Español adds that Cabot said she received “dozens of death threats,” and includes a specific message she cited: “I know where you shop and I’m coming for you.”

It also says her children heard her replay one of the worrying messages aloud and that “They were already feeling very bad, and that was when the straw that broke the camel’s back,” adding: “Because my children were afraid that I would die, and but also that they would die.”

In the same account, Cabot is described as having started therapy, stepped back from her social life for a while, and strengthened home security, while also saying she hopes to teach her children that “you can make mistakes, you can mess up badly. But there’s no justification for death threats because of it.”

The Times of India further reports that Cabot criticized a separate Astronomer advertisement featuring Hollywood figures Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds that referenced the incident in a humorous way, and it quotes her telling Oprah she was unhappy with the campaign.