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(NEXSTAR) – Kristin Cabot, the woman spotlighted on the Jumbotron while sharing an embrace with her superior at a Coldplay concert earlier this year, has been subjected to harassment both online and offline since the video of the moment gained viral attention this summer.
Cabot disclosed in a recent conversation with The New York Times that she has received numerous death threats.
“I received between 50 and 60,” she shared with the publication.
(NEXSTAR) – Kristin Cabot, the woman caught embracing her boss on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert earlier this year, says she’s been harassed online, over the phone and in person since a clip of the incident went viral this summer.
There were also dozens of death threats, Cabot revealed in a new interview with The New York Times.
“I got 50 or 60,” she told the outlet.
Cabot and Andy Byron, her then-boss at the tech company Astronomer, were caught embracing on camera at a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Mass., in July. In the video, Cabot was seen standing in front of Byron, who had his arms wrapped around her, when they suddenly appeared on the massive jumbotron.
She scrambled to hide her face while the boss ducked out of the frame, which lead Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to comment on their abrupt exit.
“Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy,” Martin said at the time.
Cabot told the Times she had never had a physical relationship with Byron until that night (she said they did kiss once), although she admitted he had been her “crush” after they bonded at work. She also said she told him she was separating from her spouse — a claim her husband had confirmed in a previous statement to People — and said her boss told her he was dealing with the “same thing.”
Still, she said, it was a “bad decision” on her part to flirt with the idea of a romantic relationship.
“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,” Cabot told the outlet. “That’s the price I chose to pay.”
Byron, the CEO of Astronomer at the time, resigned from the company days after the incident. Cabot, the HR chief, resigned about a week after.
Cabot told the Times she tried to avoid being seen in public for months after the viral moment, for fear of being harassed or embarrassing her children. She recalled the time a woman approached her while pumping gas and called her “the lowest form of human,” and once when her daughter was reduced to tears because strangers were taking pictures of them.
She said she decided to speak up now in part because she wanted her side of the story to be known before rumors about her character or marriage, or any assumptions that she was “sleeping around” to advance her career, were set in stone. The former HR executive also told the Times that she’s been working since she was 13, and at times “supported my family entirely on my own.”
“I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up,” Cabot said. “But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.”
Martin, too, had indicated at a concert in August that he hoped Cabot and Byron were “well,” albeit after joking about what he called an “internationally massive scandal.”
“Anyway, we send pure love to those people, and I wish them so well,” he said.
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