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Woman in Coldplay Cam Scandal Speaks For the First Time, Says How Her Kids Reacted

Kristin Cabot, 53, recounted the "bad decision" that she says resulted in her getting death threats, plus the lesson she hopes her children take from the ordeal.

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Kristin Cabot, the woman seen embracing her boss on a "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert in July, is speaking out for the first time about the fallout from the moment and how it affected her family.

The embrace between Cabot, 53, and Andy Byron, the then-CEO of the company Astronomer, became a viral TikTok video that resulted in both of them resigning from their jobs. Cabot, who filed a petition for divorce from husband Andrew Cabot in August, told The New York Times that she and Byron had not kissed before that night at the concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss," Cabot said. "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."

“I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up," she continued. "But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.