The woman who was caught canoodling with her boss on the “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert in July is speaking out for the first time since the viral incident.

In interviews with the New York Times and the Times of London published on Thursday, Kristin Cabot, former head of human resources at tech startup Astronomer, said she was harassed for weeks after she was seen on the jumbotron with Andy Byron, the company’s chief executive at the time, during the July 16 show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., outside of Boston.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin called out the pair as they tried to hide themselves when they realized they were being broadcast on the big screen.

“Oh, look at these two,” Martin said. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”

A 16-second fan-shot video of the intimate moment exploded on TikTok, quickly racking up more than 100 million views. Within days, Astronomer’s board of directors launched a formal investigation and enlisted a marketing company (and Gwyneth Paltrow) for damage control, and Cabot and Byron resigned.

“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,” Cabot told the New York Times at her home in New Hampshire. “I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay.”

‘A big happy crush’

Cabot, who was separated from her husband at the time, said Byron had told her that he was also going through a separation. Byron has not spoken publicly about the encounter.

Cabot told the Times of London that she had a “big happy crush” on her boss. But she was not in a sexual relationship with him at the time of the Coldplay concert, she told the New York Times, and before that night, they had never even kissed.

She said she was given VIP tickets to the concert and invited Byron to join her. On the way to the show, Cabot said she received a text informing her that her soon-to-be ex-husband, Andrew, was attending the concert too.

The viral video

Cabot said she and Byron were enjoying themselves in a VIP area at Gillette.

“We were sitting in the back of the stadium at the opposite end from the stage in the pitch black just feeling totally anonymous,” she told the Times of London. “We were just dancing, I’d had a few High Noons. Andy was standing behind me and we were dancing and I grabbed him.”

Then came the “kiss cam” seen around the world.

“I was so embarrassed and so horrified,” Cabot told the New York Times. “I’m the head of HR and he’s the CEO. It’s, like, so cliché and so bad.”

They retreated to the bar.

“We both just sat there with our heads in our hands, like, ‘What just happened?’” she said. They quickly realized they had to tell the company’s board of directors, and spent the rest of that night strategizing what to say.

By the time they sent their joint email the next morning, the TikTok video was seemingly everywhere.

The fallout

In the weeks that followed, Cabot said, she was doxxed and started receiving 500 or 600 calls a day. She told the New York Times she was labeled a “slut," a “homewrecker” and a “gold digger.”

More from the New York Times profile:

She found she could ignore most of the messages. But those that indicated a familiarity with her daily habits terrified her: “I know you shop at Market Basket and I’m coming for you.” At one point, she played one of these for her mother over speakerphone, unaware that her children were listening through the bedroom door. “They were already in really bad shape, and that’s when the wheels fell off the cart,” she said. “Because my kids were afraid that I was going to die and they were going to die.”

“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.”

In August, she filed for divorce from Andrew Cabot, who released a statement that said the couple was “amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert,” and asked for privacy.

Cabot told the Times of London that she and Byron kept in touch over the summer, during which they exchanged “crisis management advice,” but they have not spoken to each other since.