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Topics: Music, Real Life, Sex and Relationships, US News
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Music, Real Life, Sex and Relationships, US News
The husband of a woman caught on camera in her boss' loving embrace at a Coldplay concert earlier this year has spoken out.
Back in July, the British folk-rock band - led by frontman Chris Martin - were enjoying the US leg of their recent world tour, having implemented a fun segment to their shows.
The moment would see a camera turn into the audience, to show music fans dancing, smiling and showing off their elaborate banners.
During one performance in Massachusetts this summer, however, tour organisers inadvertently exposed an extra-marital affair whilst panning into the crowd.
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A couple could be seen leaning onto an upper-tier balcony, the woman standing before the man, whose arms were wrapped around her. After realising their faces had been plastered across the big screen, the horrified pair immediately broke apart, implying they're very much not a couple.
It later emerged that the man in question was Andy Byron, the married CEO of the tech-data firm Astronomer. The woman, meanwhile, was identified as Kristin Cabot, the Chief People Officer of the same firm, who is also a married woman.
Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long for both Byron to step down from his powerful position, and for Cabot to resign.
Whilst Cabot's other-half initially remained quiet on the scandal, Andrew Cabot has this week spoken out, dropping a number of bombshells in an interview with PEOPLE Magazine.
Unexpectedly via a spokesperson, the dad - who has two kids from a previous marriage - initially claimed he and his wife were 'privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert'.
The representative adding: "Their decision to divorce was already underway prior to that evening."
They continued: "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."
Speaking for 61-year-old Andrew - who, himself is the CEO of Privateer Rum - the spokesperson went on to conclude: "No further public comment will be made."
Byron's wife Megan also spoke out in the weeks following the incident, branding her husband's behaviour as 'utterly disgusting'.
In a shocking statement, she continued: "This is the most difficult moment of my life. I never imagined I would be thrust into the public spotlight in this way. I never imagined that my husband would betray me.
"I always believed that my marriage with Andy Byron was built on trust, respect and pure love."
Megan continued: "Every time he told me there was something important at work and he couldn't make it home on time, I believed him, but it turns out that during those times he was with another woman.
"I naively thought he was working hard for our family, for our children, but the kiss caught on camera at the concert shattered everything."
The mother-of-two - who shares two children of her own with Bryon - went on to confess: "Seeing Andy and Kristen Cabot cuddle together then hurriedly separating when they noticed the camera brought me a level of humiliation and pain I cannot even describe.
"I cannot accept his actions. He was the husband I was proud, the father the children respected most. His betrayal not only a trampling of my personal dignity, it's a betrayal of our entire family. I have decided to leave him.
"I cannot tolerate sharing a bed with a man who has betrayed me. It's utterly disgusting. At the same time, I don't want my children to have to face a father every day who doesn't truly value them."
Megan concluded her message by adding: "I will take my children and leave this repulsive man behind."