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At last, the moment we\u2019ve been waiting for: One-half of the canoodling<\/a> Coldplay<\/a> couple speaks. In interview<\/a>s with the Times and the New York Times published<\/a> Thursday, Kristin Cabot recapped the moment that she was caught on a kiss cam embracing Andy Byron, her married boss and the former Astronomer CEO. The 53-year-old mother of two feels she \u201ctook accountability\u201d for what she described as \u201ca bad decision\u201d she made that night in July.<\/p>\n Cabot explained that she\u2019d joined Astronomer, Byron\u2019s tech start-up, as head of human resources in November last year. After working closely together for months, she began to develop a \u201cbig happy crush.\u201d \u201cI definitely thought he was a good-looking guy and I had that thought of, If I didn\u2019t work here \u2026\u201d she remembered. A month prior to the Coldplay concert, Cabot says they both shared with each other that they\u2019d split from their respective partners. When a friend offered her free tickets to see Coldplay, she asked Byron to go with her. According to Cabot, the hug Chris Martin caught was the first time she and Byron had been physical, and that night was the first and only time they kissed. Later, she\u2019d discover through her daughter that her estranged husband was also in the crowd that night. Both Cabot and Byron stepped down from their jobs in the aftermath.<\/p>\n \u201cI made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,\u201d Cabot said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not nothing. I took accountability, and I gave up my career for that. That\u2019s the price I chose to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n In the months since the incident, Cabot says she has received thousands of emails, texts, and letters to her home calling her a \u201chomewrecker\u201d and threatening that she\u2019d meet a \u201cviolent end.\u201d The betrayal hit another level when her former idol and Chris Martin\u2019s ex Gwyneth Paltrow was hired to appear in a cheeky ad for Astronomer, spoofing the situation. Now that she\u2019s retained a communications consultant and thrown away her Goop products, though, things are on the up and up \u2014 she\u2019s found enough humor in her situation to buy a Victoria Beckham brand T-shirt that says, \u201cYes it\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n Stay in touch.<\/p>\n Get the Cut newsletter delivered daily<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n