Was Ellen Ripley on the Romulus station as well during the film? Alvarez likes to think so.

Fede Alvarez apparently confirmed that Ellen Ripley was on the Romulus station the whole time during the events of the film... which is why we see the Narcissus ejecting from the station in the film. Here's what Alvarez explained: 

My logic was at some point if Weyland-Yutani could find the Xenomorph floating around the debris of the Nostromo, to find the Narcissus, the shuttle that Ripley escaped in, is the easiest part. It’s a lifeboat; it has a beacon. Yeah, you’ll find her, right? It will be a place to figure out the research of what’s going on. You should go get her. So I’m sure they did, right? So I was like, ‘At some point, the Narcissus has to be inside the Renaissance station somewhere.’ Not only that, I wanted to give an explanation of why Ripley got lost 40 years between [Alien and Aliens]. She was supposed to go to Earth and be in stasis for decades until she gets picked up in Aliens, so I was like, ‘Why did that happen?’ So I thought, ‘Because they picked her up.

Personally, I find this one hard to get behind since how or why Ridley would end up on the Romulus station only to get back into the Narcissus with Jonesy, to be discovered later on as if nothing happened leaves too many open ends - not to mention why would she not recall her events on the station with recounting her Nostromo mission to the company in Aliens? 

I think this one is a stretch. The Easter egg of having the Narcissus float by in the background is fine, but I wouldn't try to explain or convince us that Ripley docked to the Romulus station, torched the Big Chap and then left back in cryo to float through space aimlessly. Just doesn't compute for me. 

What do you guys think?