Wait wait wait wait waaaiiit... As we all know, shannen sees herself as an academy award winning actress. She was well able to persuade thousands of people that some psycho had sent her a babygro. I remember the tears and Barry kinda looking a bit
in the background. (Not as good an actor lol)
Anyway the point I'm making is, what if she is purposely hiding Barry from her stories to build the suspense and mislead people all over again?
She thrives on sympathy.
She has a brand to launch without much going on to drum up traffic on her page.
She's no longer sick so she can't use that.
I highly doubt Barry would give up that gravy train too easily if he's as bad as her.