Former Astronomer H.R. head Kristin Cabot takes accountability for viral Coldplay kiss cam moment with CEO Andy Byron and calls Gwyneth Paltrow a hypocrite.<\/b>
\nKristin Cabot has had enough.
The woman at the center of the viral Coldplay kiss cam scandal is firing back after her former employer leaned into the controversy with a Gwyneth Paltrow ad that Cabot said crossed a line.
«I was such a fan of her company [Goop], which seemed to be about uplifting women», Cabot told The Times. «And then she did this. I thought, \u2018How dare she after the beating she got for all the conscious uncoupling stuff.\u2019 What a hypocrite.»
In July, Cabot, who was head of Astronomer’s H.R. at the time, was seen in the arms of her married boss, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, at a Coldplay concert when the band’s kiss cam found them. They quickly jumped apart, causing singer Chris Martin to speculate that they may have been having an affair. The moment went viral overnight.
Soon after, Astronomer hired Paltrow to appear in a tongue-in-cheek commercial promoting the company \u2014 a move that stunned Cabot and reopened wounds from a moment that upended her personal and professional life.
Cabot\u2019s anger appeared rooted in what she saw as a betrayal of Paltrow\u2019s carefully cultivated image as a women-first wellness mogul.
Paltrow, who famously popularized the term «conscious uncoupling» during her divorce from Martin, has long positioned herself as a voice for empathy and self-awareness.
According to The Times, Cabot got rid of her Goop products in protest.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Paltrow for comment.
The Coldplay concert moment quickly exploded into an internet firestorm, spawning memes, speculation and intense scrutiny. What some online treated as a joke, Cabot has described as a life-altering incident with real-world consequences.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Cabot opened up about how a «couple of High Noons» led her to the now-infamous moment and detailed the fallout that followed.
«I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss», Cabot said.
«And 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.»
Cabot, who was separated from her husband at the time of the concert, said that she’d received death threats because of the kiss cam footage.
After the video from the concert went viral, Byron was placed on leave, and then later resigned from the company, as did Cabot.
Cabot said the scandal upended her family\u2019s lives, but she and her children are now finding a measure of peace as they work to move forward.<\/p>\n