I mean even if she was just guessing the real Penelope’s past it shouldn’t take rocket science to understand that what she told him could have been her everyday life, she can’t bury her mother since she was poor, she survived off of food other people already ate, and a simple cold could kill her because she doesn’t have any medicine. Of course she wouldn’t want to go back to that life so she wished the daughter who lived life easily wouldn’t come back. Yet “whatever his name is” acted like he was the victim, he never starved and his mother at least got a funeral (I think) if he got sick there was always a doctor by his side no matter how expensive. In the past they lived contradicting life’s so the “whatever his name is” is spoiled, stupid and selfish.