I agree that she could claim that she has been "misquoted" in the numerous press articles, but as someone else pointed out the same specific misquote appears time and time again.
What this terrible lady and her
PR team cannot do though is to explain the photo of her taken during her inspirational speech at the Boeing museum in 2016. Here her team claimed for all to see that she was alone in the plane. That was an outright lie ....not a misquote, and not a change of plans prior to the flights.
Guilty as charged.