"Mm, you're not wrong. It's why I don't want people like Madoka," and Sayaka, "to end up like people like me. But what happened was my own fault. It wasn't about life kicking my ass. I know what that's like, too, but I know that isn't the kind of thing I can protect them from. But I can try to stop them from making the same mistakes I did."

That's... really simplifying things. But even if she isn't willing to give Yondu the full story yet, she doesn't have a problem with telling him something like the shape of it.