The husband of the married HR executive caught cuddling with Astronomer CEO at a Coldplay concert had revealed that he and his wife were separated at the time. Now the scandal has just taken a wild twist.
The Coldplay concert scandal cost two top executives of Astronomer their jobs. However, it has now emerged that the husband of shamed HR boss Kristin Cabot was actually at the same infamous concert with his own girlfriend.
While married Kristin, 52, was caught on video cuddling up to her married CEO Andy Byron in a kiss-cam blunder seen round the world, her then-husband Andrew Cabot was in the crowd with another mystery woman who is now his girlfriend – though they were not caught on camera.
Andrew, who was married to Kristin for two years, had already broken his silence to reveal the pair were separated at the time. But now, insiders have lifted the lid on the full story.
“Kristin was in the box with people from work, though it wasn’t a company box, and Andrew was actually there too with a date, with a woman who is now his girlfriend,” a source told The Times of London.
“They had been separated and living apart for several weeks. It was amicable… [Cabot] has felt like she can’t speak out as people in the middle of a divorce can’t say anything public.”
The source also defended Kristin over her disastrous decision to duck when the camera zoomed in on her and Byron snuggling up. The move went viral after it caught the eye of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who joked: “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”
The video ultimately cost both Kristin and Byron their jobs. However, friends insist it wasn’t what it looked like.
“Kristin wasn’t hiding, she doesn’t know why she ducked. She knew it was inappropriate to behave that way with her boss as the head of HR,” the insider said.
“It was not that she was caught cheating, it was not some affair. She fully acknowledges [the hug] was inappropriate, but that was the only inappropriate thing she did.”
According to the source, Kristin and Byron share nothing more than “a great friendship.”
Meanwhile, Andrew Cabot was left reeling when the scandal exploded outside the couple’s $2.2million waterfront mansion in Rye, New Hampshire. He was “blindsided” to find reporters on the doorstep of the home he once shared with Kristin and their two children. He felt forced to go public, telling People: he and Kristin were already “privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert.”
Andrew Cabot
A spokesperson for Andrew, the CEO of Privateer Rum, added: “Their decision to divorce was already underway prior to that evening.
“Now that the divorce filing is public, Andrew hopes this provides respectful closure to speculation and allows his family the privacy they’ve always valued.”
As for Byron, he was still fully married at the time and it has now cost him his marriage. Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan, 50, reacted swiftly – moving out of their marital home, returning her wedding ring, and even dropping “Byron” from her Facebook profile before ditching the account altogether.
Astronomer, the company at the centre of the storm, scrambled into damage control. The DataOps firm suspended both Byron and Kristin Cabot before they resigned – issuing a desperate statement to reassure clients.
