Kristin Cabot is opening up further about the viral Coldplay kiss cam moment that made headlines last year.

In her first on-camera interview, the former HR executive appeared on The Oprah Podcast and shared new details about what was happening in her personal life at the time. Cabot said she and her estranged husband “had decided to separate and were living apart and planning for a divorce” four to six weeks before the July 2025 concert at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts.

She also said Andy Byron, the then-CEO of Astronomer who was with her at the show, had told her that he and his wife were also living apart and planning to divorce, something he said had been “many years in the making.”

Cabot added that her estranged husband was also at the Coldplay concert that night, something she found out after her daughter texted her as she was walking into the venue. Recalling her reaction, she said, “And in my mind, I thought, ‘Well, is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy?’”

After Oprah Winfrey responded, “Or you run into him,” Cabot replied, “Yeah, if I run into him. But then I was like, I’m in Gillette Stadium. There’s 55,000 people here. I’m probably not going to run into him.”

The moment that went viral happened when Cabot and Byron were shown embracing on the stadium’s kiss cam. As Cabot covered her face and Byron ducked out of sight, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin joked to the crowd that the pair must be “very shy” or “having an affair.” Cabot said she did not hear Martin’s comment in the moment and was instead focused on something else entirely.

“My immediate thought was, ‘Oh, my God, my husband’s in the building,’” she said. “He was there with someone else and I knew that and that was great and fine. But he and I were in the midst of our separation. To this day, he’s been one of the biggest supporters of me through all of this. He’s an incredible man. And the last thing I wanted to do was embarrass him. And that was my first thought when I saw myself in that in that moment.”

The fallout from the clip was swift. Byron resigned from Astronomer first, followed by Cabot, who later filed a petition for divorce from her husband in August 2025.

In an earlier interview with The New York Times in December 2025, Cabot said, “I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss. And it’s not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay.”

She also said the backlash became much more serious than public embarrassment. According to Cabot, she received death threats after the incident, and her children “were afraid that I was going to die and they were going to die.”

With an incident like this, it is no doubt that people will likely keep debating how much of someone’s personal life belongs in the court of public opinion.