Woman from Coldplay kiss cam blasts Gwyneth Paltrow. Was the mocking too much?

Published March 18, 2026

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USA TODAY referenced a quote that David Schmid previously gave the news outlet in a story reporting that Kristin Cabot, one half of the “Coldplay Kiss Cam” incident, is blasting Gwyneth Paltrow and others who capitalized on the viral moment, saying they did so without thinking about how the added attention impacted the lives of those involved. “Social media activity is an endless repeating cycle of controversy, outrage and our sacred right to say whatever we want about whoever we want with no consequences,” Schmid said. “Once we've chewed (a person) up and spat them out, we’ll move to someone else, and so it goes on, ad nauseam, at a pace dictated by our ever-shrinking attention span.”

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