Satan owns a Bernedoodle. A great big fluffy one that likes to sit in Satan\u2019s lap. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s if by \u201cSatan\u201d you mean Kristin Cabot, a.k.a. the woman from the Coldplay kiss-cam scandal, who just gave her first interview about the ever-so-brief moment in mid-July that entertained a nation \u2014 and trashed her life completely. <\/p>\n
The video was an instant classic for those attending the concert: \u201cOhhh, look at these two,\u201d singer Chris Martin said as the band\u2019s kiss-cam spotlighted her wrapped in the arms of her C-suite boss<\/a>. Andy Byron suddenly, awkwardly ducked out of camera range while Cabot turned her back, covered her face and ultimately fled.<\/p>\n \u201cWait, what? Either they\u2019re having an affair,\u201d Martin continued, \u201cor they\u2019re just very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n If that didn\u2019t look like two people caught cheating, what would? <\/p>\n \u201cI was so embarrassed and so horrified,\u201d Cabot told the New York Times<\/a> in an interview published Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m the head of HR and he\u2019s the CEO. It\u2019s, like, so clich\u00e9 and so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, the CEO was the HR chief\u2019s \u201cplus-one\u201d that night at the concert. Yes, they were on a VIP balcony that felt private. Yes, they both had been drinking tequila. But no, they were not, she said, having an affair. <\/p>\n \u201cI was like: \u2018I got this. I can have a crush. I can handle it,\u2019\u201d she said of her mindset. When the night began, they hadn\u2019t done anything together worth reporting to the company. They were both separated from their spouses. That night wound up being the only time they ever kissed. And while Byron danced behind her, Cabot told NYT, she took his hands and wrapped his arms around her. <\/p>\n The moment was captured on video by Grace Springer, a Zillennial who almost discarded the footage after the concert until her friends convinced her it was definitely worth posting on TikTok. She said she did not monetize it. <\/p>\n \u201cA part of me feels bad for turning these people\u2019s lives upside down,\u201d Springer said on a U.K. morning show<\/a> a few days after the video went viral, \u201cbut, play stupid games \u2026 win stupid prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n The video\u2019s<\/a> virality was helped by the news media<\/a>, the algorithms behind social media and the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>, Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> and the Philly Phanatic<\/a>. People made money off kiss-cam-themed merch. Cabot said she was doxxed, inundated by hate-filled phone calls and emails and called out by strangers on the street. She got 50 or 60 death threats.<\/p>\n Her kids accidentally overheard one of the phone calls when Cabot played it on speakerphone for her mom. <\/p>\n \u201cThey were already in really bad shape, and that\u2019s when the wheels fell off the cart,\u201d the former executive told NYT. \u201cBecause my kids were afraid that I was going to die and they were going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a full-bore public shaming, imbued with an unhinged and vicious glee that we hadn\u2019t experienced since, well, the last time millions of strangers rallied to the cause of destroying someone\u2019s life \u2014 but magnified by the fact that everything and everyone involved was a standard menu item at the Things You Love to Hate buffet,\u201d a Free Press<\/a> writer said at the time in an article criticizing the public\u2019s response. \u201cAdultery. CEOs. HR representatives. Rich people with linen shirts and expensive highlights. Coldplay, for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n For Cabot, it was something more basic. <\/p>\n