Not really. The bottom line is that 's what the friend remembers. People muddle up the details all the time.
I worked with a woman who told everyone who would listen that her mother owned two homes in Costa Rica. She claimed that she could stay at either home any time she liked, and even went so far as to extend disingenuous invitations to everyone. The truth was that her mother had a two week time share in Costa Rica. Sometimes people claim that they own a property in another country when that isn't the entire truth.